Fulton to reside with him. Mr. Fulton lived seven years in Mr. Barlow's family, during which time he learned the French, and something of the Italian and German languages. He also studied the high mathematics, physics, chemistry, and perspective, and acquired that science which, when united with his uncommon natural genius, gave him so great a superiority over many of those who, with some talents, but without any sort of science, have pretended to be his rivals. Mr. Fulton, during his residence with Mr. Barlow, projected the first panorama that was exhibited in Paris. This was a novelty which attracted many spectators, and afforded a handsome emolument.

At this period, an honored representative of one of the congressional districts of New Jersey visited Mr. Fulton. On the wall of his room was sketched distinctly the plan of a steamboat. "There," said Fulton, as he pointed it out to his visitor, "is the Resurrection!" And there are many others of the same class. With such magnificence and sublimity, who could cope?

"Old paintings! who would not spare them? they are priceless for

their age:

O spare them! they are sacred to the dead!

They tell of times, of happy times, in years long, long gone by;

Of dear ones that have ceased to live but in the memory:

They picture many a bright, bright scene, in sunny days of yore:

O, then, spare them! they are a priceless store:
They are the only links that bind us to the past.”

image of what will yet traverse the river and the ocean." And wherever he went, this image of the future he carried with him. It was written in his mind. He saw it as he walked along, he thought of it, he dreamed of it, and at last he acted it. The taper of his lone room illuminated the world.

Mr. Fulton's Inventions.

1.—In 1797, Mr. Fulton invented and designed the first panorama ever exhibited in Paris, which he sold, to try his experiments on the propulsion of vessels by steam.

2. In 1794, he invented and received letters patent in England for a mill for sawing marble; for which the British Society for the "Promotion of the Arts and Commerce" presented him with their thanks and an honorary medal.

3. In 1797, he likewise invented and patented Double Inclined-Planes for canals.

The DOUBLE INCLINED-PLANE, extending from one level of the canal to the other, and running into each canal about sixty feet.

A TUB or cistern to move in a pit, into which water is drawn from the upper canal, in order to create a power to put the machine in motion. A drum-wheel over the pit, which gives motion to the apparatus.

Balance-chains attached to the tub.

A horizontal wheel at the bottom of the plane: also a wheel inclined on the same angle as the plane, to be placed at the top: round these two wheels the chains are continued, and perform a rotatory movement. A shaft with two wheels multiplied movement, to convey the motion from the drum to the inclined-wheel. A stopper on the plane near the bridge, to prevent the boat descending until the man is ready. Centrifugal fans regulate the movement.

4. Also a machine for spinning flax.

5. Also for a machine for making ropes, which can stand in a room forty feet square, and by which the rope-yarns are put on spools, and any sized cordage made by one man.

6. He likewise obtained letters patent for a machine and contrivance for scooping out the earth to form channels for canals or aqueducts, afterwards much used in England.

7. He likewise invented and erected cast-iron bridges and cast-iron aqueducts, and wooden bridges, with his peculiar mode of combining the timbers.

S.-His treatise on the "Improvement of Canal Navigation," in quarto form, one hundred and twenty pages, containing seventeen elegantly engraved plates, all his own designs, was published

in London in 1796. He there exhibits several kinds of boats for canals, for the purpose of passing the planes, to avoid the loss of time, if the boats were placed on any kind of a carriage.

9. His invention of what he called the MARKET or PASSAGE BOAT.

10. Another: the DESPATCH BOAT, for the purpose of conveying such goods as require expedition. 11.-Another: the TRADER, which was twenty feet long, four wide, two feet ten inches deep in the clear, flat at the bottom, and ends like a box, bolted and screwed and stayed at the corners, with two knees or ribs inside, exactly above the wheels, and about five feet from the ends, which would leave ten feet in the centre. Two keels of scantling, about six inches square, eighteen inches asunder, were laid along the centre of the bottom to receive the wheels. The wheels from six to ten inches in diameter, two feet distance from the extremities-axle and wheel cast in one piece, and turned at the shoulders the axle moved on brass or iron steps.

12. The MODE OF CROSSING RIVERS and gaining height at the same time, performing the double operation of an aqueduct and locks.

13.-A PERPENDICULAR Lift to pass boats by means of cranes on the upper side of the upper

canal behind the cranes was a drum-wheel of two diameters to the largest the crane chains were fastened. To the crane chains a cage of iron was fixed to receive the boat: thus suspended, the cage and a tub of water moved alternately between the the summit and lower canals.

14. Another mode of passing, by machinery, a DESCENDING TRADE, and saving the whole of the water by means of the pumps.

15. His invention of beautiful air-guns-one of which he sold to a gentleman of Chester county for seventy-five dollars. He experimented with air-guns, to test the difference between the force of air and steam: he concluded that they might be considered equal, but that steam was the most practicable.

16. The "Cable Cutter," to cut the cables of vessels when lying at anchor.

17.-" Torpedoes:" copper cylinders which contained about one hundred pounds of powder, discharged by a gun-lock and clock-work, by which vessels could be blown to atoms-the explosion taking place according to the time fixed.

18. In 1807, the first STEAM PACKET that was ever built, or sailed against wind and tide, which was called the "CLERMONT."

19. The first submarine plunging-boat, as a