and discernment of Livingston, created one of the greatest accommodations for the benefit of mankind. These illustrious men will be considered, through all time, as the benefactors of the world; they will be emphatically hailed as the Castor and Pollux of antiquity-lucida sidera-stars of excellent light and of most benign influence.

"Mr. Fulton was personally well known to most who hear me. To those who were favoured with the high communion of his superior mind, I need not expatiate on the wonderful vivacity, activity, comprehension, and clearness of his intellectual faculties; and while he was meditating plans of mighty import for his future fame and his country's good, he was cut down in the prime of his life, and in the midst of his usefulness. Like the self-burning tree of Gambia, he was destroyed by the fire of his own genius, and the never-ceasing activity of a vigorous mind."

Extract from a Discourse delivered before the New York Historical Society, in September, 1816, by the Hon. Gouverneur Morris.

"If the learned leisure of European wealth can gain applause or emolument for meting out, by syllables reluctantly drawn together, unharmonious hexameters, far be it from us to rival the manufacture. Be it ours to boast that the first vessel successfully propelled by steam was launched on the bosom of Hudson's river. It was here that American genius, seizing the arm of European science, bent to the purpose of our favourite parent art the wildest and most devouring element.

The patron, the inventor, are no more. But the names of Livingston and of Fulton, dear to fame, shall be engraven ON A MONUMENT SACRED TO THE There generations yet

BENEFACTORS OF MANKIND. unborn shall read:

"Godfrey taught seamen to interrogate

With steady gaze, though tempest-tossed, the sun,
And from his beam true oracle obtain.

Franklin dread thunderbolts, with daring hand,
Seized, and averted their destructive stroke
From the protected dwellings of mankind.
FULTON by flame compelled the angry sea,
To vapour rarefied, his bark to drive,

IN TRIUMPH proud, thro' the loud-sounding surge.

"This invention is spreading fast in the civilized world; and though excluded as yet from Russia, will, ere long, be extended to that vast empire. A bird hatched on the Hudson will soon people the floods of the Wolga, and cygnets descended from an American swan glide along the surface of the Caspian sea. Then the hoary genius of Asia, high-throned on the peaks of Caucasus, his moist eye glistening while it glances over the ruins of Babylon, Persepolis, Jerusalem, and Palmyra, shall bow with grateful reverence to the inventive spirit of this Western World.

"Hail, Columbia! child of science, parent of useful arts—dear country, hail! Be it thine to meliorate the condition of man. Too many thrones have been reared by arms, cemented by blood, and reduced again to dust by the sanguinary conflict of arms. Let mankind enjoy at last the consolatory spectacle of thy throne, built by industry on the basis

of peace, and sheltered under the wings of justice. May it be secured by a pious obedience to that Divine will which prescribes the moral orbit of empire with the same precision that his wisdom and power have displayed in whirling millions of planets round millions of suns through the vastness of infinite space."

In presenting this work to a generous public, we not only desire to attract the attention of AMERICAN INVENTORS to the unparalleled perseverance of Fulton, but we call upon the youth of this country, "Young America," to honour the name of Fulton by imitating his exemplary acts, his industrious habits, and adopting his youthful motto:

"There is nothing impossible to do."

No

No student possessed a mind more tremblingly alive upon the peculiar subjects of his pursuit than Mr. Fulton. His whole mind and heart were actively engaged in calculating how he could best promote the happiness of his fellow-man. college lore, no academic shade in the forests of Lancaster county, had he to improve his intellect; but on the quiet banks of the winding Conestoga stream he gathered natural strength and originality to express the conceptions of his own mind with force; and there did this youthful genius, under the impulse of a new thought, pursue the chain with which it was connected.

Another object of the author in publishing this book, is to collect money sufficient, from the proceeds of the sales, to erect, in the city of Lancaster and other places,

MONUMENTS TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT FULTON; and he has full confidence in his fellow-citizens, that they will cheerfully aid his humble efforts in this worthy project.

The monument will be of cast iron, a colossal statue of Robert Fulton, supported by a richly ornamented pedestal, composed of heavy cast plates, containing twelve correct representations of Mr. Fulton's inventions and drawings, in alto relievo. From the original patterns and moulds, a large number of these statues and ornamented plates can be cast; and every city in the United States can be supplied, and enabled to perpetuate the fame of Fulton.