...this experiment is no small accession to the public; its utility on canals and all other navigations points it out to be of the greatest advantage, not only to this island, but to many other nations of the world. This improvement holds no inconsiderable rank among the inventions of modern times ;...

...painter. They were propelled at the rate of fiver miles an hour. The " Scots Magazine " said, " This will be of the greatest advantage, not only to this island, but to many other nations of the world." And yet it so little impressed Burns that he never refers to it MiUer himself left the...