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At this time he was nearly drowned in the Magdalena River, but was rescued by a Venezuelan officer, who drew him ashore with a lasso. It is pleasant to learn that he made the acquaintance of George Stephenson at Carthagena, and received generous help from one who might have been considered his rival.
Another series consists of medallions and portraits of famous men connected with Northumbrian events, from Hadrian and Severus down to George Stephenson and others of modern times; while yet another depicts all the incidents of "Chevy Chase."
Catharine Stephenson died April 22; born in Nottinghamshire, 1778. Her body now slumbers along with the dead; Her Savior hath called, to him she has gone, Be ye also ready to follow her soon.
Captains Hugh Stephenson of Berkeley, & Daniel Morgan of Frederick were selected to raise and command those companies, they being the first Regular troops required to be raised in the State of Virginia for Continental service. Great exertions were made by each Captain to complete his company first, that merit might be claimed on that account.
Nay, it is not yet forty years since practical engineers judged George Stephenson mad, for saying that a steam-engine could draw a train of carriages along a rail-way at the rate of fourteen miles an hour. It is certainly a startling thing to be told that I am dead, and that the distant hill out there is living.
We could hear calls and yells, the clatter of arms, and a thumping of the earth; the strain of men tugging cannon ropes; the swift withdrawal of a routed force. Two thousand more Indians approaching under Tecumseh, were turned back by refugees. Croghan remarked, as we listened to the uproar, "Fort Stephenson can hardly be called untenable against heavy artillery."
The children of the Stephenson family were now growing apace, and several of them were old enough to be able to earn money at various kinds of colliery work. James and George, the two eldest sons, worked as assistant-firemen; and the younger boys worked as wheelers or pickers on the bank-tops. The two girls helped their mother with the household work.
He did so, and then the projector told him of the difficulty he had in finding subscribers to the concern. “Give me a sheet,” said Stephenson, “and I will raise the money for you in Liverpool.” The engineer was as good as his word, and in a short time the sheet was returned with the subscription complete. Mr.
Arkwright probably stood in the same relation to the spinning- machine that Watt did to the steam-engine and Stephenson to the locomotive. He gathered together the scattered threads of ingenuity which already existed, and wove them, after his own design, into a new and original fabric.
An economical method of working the coal trains, instead of by horses,—the keep of which was at that time very costly, from the high price of corn,—was still a great desideratum; and the best practical minds in the collieries were actively engaged in the attempt to solve the problem. In the first place Stephenson resolved to make himself thoroughly acquainted with what had already been done. Mr.
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