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206 HISTORY OF THE FIKST LOCOMOTIVES IN AMERICA. work you are about to publish, and do Bot doubt but that you will make it worthy of public patronage. With great respect, " I am, etc., « J. C. Cai^houit." " William H. Beown, Esq.— " Washisgton Cut, January 13, 1843. « Mt dear Sie : Your favor of the 3d instant is before me, and in reply I will say that the likenesses of the members of Congress and other public men of the times, taken by you in your peculiar and characteristic style, are remarkably correct, and easily recognized at a glance. " My friends unite in saying that the one you took of myself is a striking likeness. I cannot, however, see its resemblance to the original as I do in all the others. It is an old and very true saying, ' that if we could see ourselves as others see us,' etc. "I wish you great success in your contemplated work. It cannot otherwise than prove acceptable to the public, who feel an interest in the records of men who have devoted their best facul- ties to their country's service, which your ' Portrait Gallery ' will exhibit. With great respect, "Yours truly, , "Dahiel Webstee." " William H. BEOWisr, Esq.— " Lexington, Kt., October 13, 1843. " Deae Sie : Your favor of the 2d instant is received. I well remember your collection of the likenesses of our public men, members of Congress, the Cabinet, and other officials in and about Washington City, and I will say that I was particularly struck with their truthfulness. That of the Hon. John Randolph, of Roanoke, is the very perfection of your art. I shall not soon forget the amusement you afforded the visitors at the Blue Lick Springs last summer, by your delineations of many of them in your peculiar and characteristic style of portraiture, unequalled by any other artist in that way I have ever seen. " The work you propose to publish will, no doubt, be an inter- esting acquisition to the reading public, and I request you here to put my name down in the list of your subscribers for a copy as soon as it is ready for distribution. With great respect, I remain, "Yours truly, "Henet Clat." Digitized by Microsoft®
RKOAPITULATION. 307 The foregoing letters are in allusion to a " Portrait- Gallery of Distinguislied Public Men," publislied loj the author a few years after. They are referred to in this work merely as further evidences of the author's skill in his peculiar art of sketching in black paper outliae or profile, that our readers may rely upon the correctness of the representation of the " De Witt Clinton " and train, which we insert. CHAPTEE XL. EEOAPITTTLATION. We trust that we have now faithfully performed the task imdertaken by us, when we commenced these pages ; and we believe that our readers will not enter- tain a doubt, from the chain of authentic and reliable evidence we have brought before them, that the fio-st locomotive ever run upon a railroad in this country was the "Stourbridge Lion," imported from England in 1829. We have shown that this machine was ordered by John B. Jervis, Esq., the chief engiQeer of the Delaware and Hudson Canal and RaUroad Company, to be used upon their road, which connected with their canal that Horatio Allen, Esq., the assistant engineer under Mr. Jervis, was on a visit to England, and witnessed the experiments then made in the contest for the prize of £500 offered by the Liverpool and Manchester Kail- road for the locomotive that should perform certain re- quisitions ; that Mr. Allen was instructed by Mr. Jer- vis to contract for three locomotives for the Delaware Digitized by Microsoft® ;
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