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carried on for several years by successive parties. It finally ceased altogether early in this century, and the old engine was broken up and the materials disposed of. The boiler, a large copper cylinder, standing upright eight or ten feet high, and as much in diameter, with a flat bottom and a dome shaped top was carried to Philadelphia. The relic in your possession was a portion of the cylinder, and was purchased by some person in Newark. 

In 1864, I met an old man named John Van Emburgh, then a hundred years old, who had worked on the engine when it was in operation in 1792. He described it very minutely and, I doubt not, accurately. It is from his description that I happened to know the kind of engine it was; although, from the date of its construction, and the use to which it was put, there could have been but little doubt on the subject. 

What changes have been wrought in one hundred and twenty five years. What mighty power has been created on this continent, in that time, by the multi-