American Ingenuity.
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We find in the Boston Post the follow
ing notice of an invention which prom
ises most important results: 'sss


Mr.. Peter Lear, ofthis city, has. COM
pleted the model of an entirely new plan
for propelling vessels through the water
1t is applied TO common lap streaked.!
OF. .clinker built boat Of go feet in length
and feet beam. This boat is perfect
ly flat foored amidships, about six feet
fore and aft, but terminates forward and
aftlike any other boat. She is propell-
ed by two horizontal wheels, encased in
the bottom, about four feet apart, amid
ships, the one before the others. not op-
posite each other, like those of Lieut..
Hunters. 49, - sss4s


The floats or cogs of these wheels are
secured by hinges, and at The inner or
central extremes, have small rollers,
which act on an inclined plane; that also,