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nd easily reducible ores. The early means for the reduction of iron from the ore were small furnaces with cold blast, in which rich ore was heated in contact with incandescent charcoal, the viscid mass being hammered to remove earthy impurities. This plan is yet practiced in India, Africa, Malaya, Madagascar, and forms the Mass of iron, shapeless from the forge, offered by Achilles as a prize at the funeral games of Patroclus, recorded in Homer's twenty-third book of the Iliad. Dr. Livingston refers to the iron-smelting furnaces of the tribes encountered in his Expedition to the Zambesi. The articles produced by these peoples are hammers, tongs, hoes, adzes, fish-hooks, needles, and spear-heads. King Porus presented to Alexander the Great a wrought bar of laminated steel, for which Damascus was subsequently so famous that it is known as Damascene. One of the most remarkable forgings in the world, if it be one, is the wrought-iron pillar within the precincts of a mosque n
loyed, is shown at c. Stevens's propeller, 1804. Stevens navigated his propeller by sea to the Delaware, as Chancellor Livingston had obtained a patent for the navigation of the Hudson by steam. See propeller. F. P. Smith, a farmer, of Ro that most ancient and wonderful poem, the Book of Job. The iron-smelting furnaces of Africa are thus described by Dr. Livingston:— At every third or fourth village (in the regions near Lake Nyssa) we saw a kiln-looking structure, about 6 feet shed the distance between New York and Philadelphia in three days. After the monopoly of the waters of the Hudson by Livingston and Fulton had ceased, Robert L Stevens built the steamboat New Philadelphia. and it started off at the speed of 13 1/France, which continued seven years. During this period he made experiments with his submarine and torpedo boat. Chancellor Livingston had designed to avail himself of the conditional grant in 1798 of the State of New York for navigating the Hudson