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Enclosure: David Gelston’s List of Steamboats, [ca. 17 October 1811]
Enclosure
David Gelston’s List of Steamboats
| List of Steam Boats | |||||||
| Length | Breadth | Depth | Tonnage | ||||
| Between | New York & Albany |  |
Paragon | 167.6 | 26.10 | 7.9 | 331.39 |
| Car of Neptune | 169.0 | 25.2 | 7.3 | 295.55 | |||
| North river | 149.0 | 17.11 | 7.0 | 182.48 | |||
| Hope | 149.0 | 20.8 | 7.7 | 225.33 | |||
| Perseverance | 147.0 | 20.6 | 7.6 | 218.00 | |||
|
1252.801 | ||||||
| N York & Brunswick | Raritan2 | 129.0 | 21.0 | 6.8 | 163.93 | ||
| 1416.783 | |||||||
MS (MHi); in an unidentified hand; undated.
1. The correct figure is 1252.75.
2. Manuscript: “Rariton.”
3. The correct figure is 1416.68.
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