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Excerpt from The Original Steam-Boat Supported, or a Reply to Mr. James Rumsey's Pamphlet: Shewing the True Priority of John Fitch, and the False Datings, &C. Of James Rumsey
Fiady this fubjefi, becaufe the common way of fixing boilers. Required fo great a load of brick work, that it overloaded our; Therefore, the firll: thought that mull occur to every, man, attempting to raife fieam on board a boat, Inuit be to ac quire that method which would require the leali weight - Since Mr. Rumfey has been. In town I'have been told, that he fay; I have got bis mode of creating Ream; whether that be the cafe or not (or whether he has got mine) I do not at prefent know But. As both Mr. Rumfey and Mr. Voight laid their drawings and plans before the Philofophical Society the fame day, it will ap pear how far they are alike. And Mr. Voight made a prior eh try of his plans in the Prothonotary's'_ oliice, in this city. If there {hould happen to be any fimilarity between them, it would be nothing furprizing; having the fame load on both their minds, they both fought relief; and,_ as fick perfenswlackinkg a doctor, 'chance might' have led them tosthe fame man;iand I had an undoubted right to-apply' every medicine that fuited-the.
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