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HISTOKT OF THE FIEST LOCOMOTIVES IN AMERICA.
" The foregoing extracts are true copies from the original
papers relating to Jason Torry's business.
" Respectfully,
"John Toeet."
Annexed we give a sketcli of the "Stourbridge
Lion" from an original drawing of the macMne, together
with a description of the engine by Mr. David
Matthew, who had charge of the men who were employed
to fit Tip the engine when it arrived in New
York, and had been landed at the works of the West
Point FoTindery, New York.
1859:
Mr. Matthew writes, under date of December 6,
" The ' Stourbridge Lion ' was a four-wheeled engine, all drivers,
with all four wheels connected by pins in the wheels. The boiler
was a round, cylindrical one ; no drop part for the furnace, and
the smoke-box had a well-painted lion's head on it. The cylinders
were vertical, placed at the back and each side of the furnace, with
grasshopper-beams and connecting-rods from them to the crankpins
in the wheels. The back wheels and the side-rods between
them and the front wheels ; the front end of the beams were sup-
ported by a pair of radius rods which formed the parallel motion.
This engine was built by Foster, Rastrick & Company, at Stour-
bridge, England."
CHAPTER XVI.
MOEE FACTS OP THE STOTJEBKIDGE LICIT.
In September, 1829, a locomotive built by George
Stephenson, at his works in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, ar-
rived in New York and was to be seen, for some time,
in the yard of E. Dunscomb, Water Street ;'its wheels
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