I am determined to stay for some time, to give them a chance of making up their minds." Two other young Americans, Charles Robinson and Charles L.Chapin, were also travelling around Europe at this time for the purpose of introducing Morse's invention, but, while all these efforts resulted in the ultimate adoption by all the nations of Europe, and then of the world, of this system, the superiority of which all were compelled, sometimes reluctantly, to admit, no arrangement was made by which Morse and his co-proprietors benefited financially.

The gain in fame was great, in money nil.

It was, therefore, with mixed feelings that Morse wrote to his brother from Paris on November 1:-- "I am still gratified in verifying the fact that my Telegraph is ahead of all the other systems proposed.

Wheatstone's is not adopted here.

The line from Paris to Rouen is not on his plan, but is an experimental line of the Governmental Commission.