Endnotes

1. A machine of this description was really the invention of a young colored man in Kentucky. ↩

2. Dr. Joel Parker of Philadelphia. ↩

3. These lines have been thus rather inadequately translated:

   “Think, O Jesus, for what reason
   Thou endured’st earth’s spite and treason,
   Nor me lose, in that dread season;
   Seeking me, thy worn feet hasted,
   On the cross thy soul death tasted,
   Let not all these toils be wasted.”

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