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as of Columbus "He died in the misery of [hope deferred (underlined)]
[as] under the pressure of ... Embarrassments."
For after spending a great deal of time & money on what
he was well assured might prove a advantageous if properly
pursued. Fulton obtained all the ... & profit, [&] is
improperly & unjustly considered the [inocutor? (underlined)], when his only
merit was [whoduing?] successfully what is certainly? a
most valuable acquisitian to the whole Nation - but in
which even he did not expect to succeed to ... great an
extent - for ^he offered to bet any sum that a boat and not
be madeto go more than five miles an hour [x] (because
he had not made one go faster) the W. J. told him that the
Company to which he belonged made a Boat ... eight miles
... since that I have seen accounts of their going 13 miles an
hour. - Previous to this where in Rhode Island (in
1789) he had a favorite plan of going to Africa to settle
a Colony of free blacks, ... numbers were willing to go (See
Papers on the B[o]y) but circumstances changed his pursuits
(th... ut was several years before the game wth the intention
entirely) & he relinquished the plan of going himself, th[o]
he never abandonded the object, that the satisfaction in this

as of Columbus "He died in the misery of [hope deferred (underlined)]
[as] under the pressure of ... Embarrassments."
For after spending a great deal of time & money on what
he was well assured might prove a advantageous if properly
pursued. Fulton obtained all the ... & profit, [&] is
improperly & unjustly considered the [inocutor?], when his only
merit was [whoduing?] successfully what is certainly? a
most valuable acquisitian to the whole Nation - but in
which even he did not expect to succeed to ... great an
extent - for ^he offered to bet any sum that a boat and not
be madeto go more than five miles an hour [x] (because
he had not made one go faster) the W. J. told him that the
Company to which he belonged made a Boat ... eight miles
... since that I have seen accounts of their going 13 miles an
hour. - Previous to this where in Rhode Island (in
1789) he had a favorite plan of going to Africa to settle
a Colony of free blacks, ... numbers were willing to go (See
Papers on the B[o]y) but circumstances changed his pursuits
(th... ut was several years before the game wth the intention
entirely) & he relinquished the plan of going himself, th[o]
he never abandonded the object, that the satisfaction in this