from him.

But no one else has ever been given credit for it.

Everyone who tried a ride upon the boat found it much nicer than
jolting along in a stage coach.

In two years a regular line of boats was running between the great
city of New York and its capital city.

Mr. Fulton built other boats.

Some of them were ferry-boats.

[Illustration: BROOKLYN BRIDGE AND FULTON FERRY.]

A ferry from New York to Long Island is still called by his name,
Fulton Ferry.

Do you suppose the thousands of people who cross by it, ever think
of patient, industrious, hard-working, Robert Fulton?

In January, 1815, Mr. Fulton went to Trenton, New Jersey, as witness
in a lawsuit.

The weather was very severe.

Mr. Fulton became much chilled.

In coming back his boat was caught in the ice.

It was several hours before it could be moved.

You remember Mr. Fulton was not very strong.

He was ill for several days.

He was very anxious about a boat which he was building.

He left his bed too soon.

He was then taken very ill indeed.

And upon the twenty-fourth of February, 1815, the world lost this
great man.

Everyone mourned his loss.

The great city of New York was in mourning.

He was buried in the Livingston vault in Trinity Churchyard, New
York.

No monument has ever been raised over this great man.

But the boats which every year ply back and forth upon lake, river,
and ocean, are constant reminders of his great work for the world.

[Illustration: ELI WHITNEY.]

ELI WHITNEY.

The war, called the Revolution, was ended.

The treaty of peace had been signed.

America had won her freedom.

Our country then was smaller than now.

It contained only about four million people.

These people were widely scattered.

The world did not think of the United States as an important
country.

It was thought to be about as important as Denmark or Portugal is
now.

We call one part of our country the South.

The South of this time was very different from the South of to-day.

Fewer cities were to be seen.

Many forests covered the land.

The plantations were few.

Plantation is the southern word for farm.

There were not many slaves then.

People hoped slavery would die out.

They thought it might if it were let alone.

Many people left the South to find other homes.

This was because they could not make a good living there.

Indigo, rice, and cotton were raised.

But only