As they had then a powerful fleet, the oracle gave them rational advice, which had the effect of saving the Athenian people.
[4] An account of these is given by Bennet Woodcraft in his Sketch of the Origin and Progress of Steam Navigation, London, 1848.
[5] See Industrial Biography, pp.

183-197, [6] The story is told in Scribner's Monthly Illustrated Magazine, for April 1879.

Ericsson's modest bill was only $15,000 for two years' labour.

He was put off from year to year, and at length the Government refused to pay the amount.

"The American Government," says the editor of Scribner, "will not appropriate the money to pay it, and that is all.