Steamboat. Rumsey

and Fitch invented the steamboat before Fulton, but he was the first to make a practical succe of it. His boat, the ‘**Clermont,"’ made a succe ful trip up the Hudson in 1807. The “Clermont ’’ was a paddle-wheel boat, of twenty horse-power. Fulton and R. R. Livings ton obtained from the State of New York a monopoly of the use of this invention on New York waters during thirty years. (See Gibbons vs. Ogden.) In 1819 the steamboat ‘‘ Savannah ”’ sailed from America to Liverpool. Almost immediately steamboats began to be used on the Mi i ippi and other Western rivers, and contributed enormously to the development of population and agriculture in the great central valley. In 1818 the first steamer appeared on the Great Lakes,—the ‘‘ Walk-in-the-Water.’’ By 1830 there was a daily line from Buffalo to Detroit. Steam navigation acro the Atlantic was established in 1838.