[Corner torn off] driver only, and can go up and down hill and into the water, safely! “Please to say all this,” says Mr. Wiard, “for I assure you, I believe it all!” So will we all, when we see it, and the sight is promised us.
Mr. John Cleveland, 35 Wall Street, N. Y., is now the trustee of the patent, and by the liberal subscription of a few intelligent and responsible gentlemen of that city Mr. Wiard is enabled to fully develop and test his plans. The machine he is now building is said to be beautiful as well as useful; and it seems likely to attract a number of New Yorkers to visit Prairie du Chien when Mr. Wiard brings it here.
Should this invention prove to be a practical one, Norman Wiard’s name will be ranked along with that of Fulton, Stephenson, and Morse. If his machine should prove valueless, the worst that can or will be said, will be that he _deserved_ success.
The Prairie du Chien _Leader_ says it is not, and never has been, the intention of Mr. Wiard to test the practicability of his invention with the boat half built last winter, and which remains in _statue_ [sic] _quo_ yet, being too large, heavy, and unwieldy for the experiment.
[60] See article by Henry E. Legler, _Early Wisconsin Imprints: A Preliminary Essay_, in Wisconsin Historical Society, _Proceedings_, 1905, 121.
[61] The Racine _Advocate_ of March 3, 1846, contains a half-column notice of Smith’s book, then newly published at Milwaukee.
[62] Copies of two later editions of the _Poetical Geography_ are owned by the Wisconsin Historical Library. One was published at Cincinnati in 1852, the other at New York in 1853.
[63] This memorandum was prepared for submission to the Committee on State Affairs of the Wisconsin Assembly in April, 1917. A bill had been introduced in the assembly by the committee which provided that the name “Joliet” should be given to the state park at the mouth of the Wisconsin River. As a result of the memorandum, the bill was amended by substituting the spelling “Jolliet” in the name of the park.
[64] Missing in the original--Transcriber’s Note]
[65] R. G. Thwaites, _The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents_ (Cleveland, 1896-1901), LIX, 86, 121, 123, 159.
[66] Cited by Ernest Gagnon, _Louis Jolliet, decouvreur du Mississippi et du pays des Illinois_ … (Quebec, 1902), 2.