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      While not exactly a Great Lakes article, it is not without interest. Then, of course, the Fulton and Livingston estates held a monopoly of steam navigation in the waters of New York state and licensed that right to the owners of the ONTARIO, SOPHIA, WALK-IN-THE-WATER and SUPERIOR.

      Ship Timber From Wisconsin. - Large quantities of ship timber, consisting of oak-knees, plank, &c.;, now lie in our ship-yards, and are being worked up into elegant ships, after after performed a journey of eight to ten hundred miles, from the forests of Michigan and Wisconsin. Within ...

      Terrible explosion on Lake Erie Cleveland April 28 The steamer Wayne left Toledo on Saturday morning about 9 o'clock, with 29 passengers, and took on board some 40 more at Sandusky on Saturday night, leaving there at 10 o'clock. These and the crew made the number on board ...

      Awful Disasters We have never before been called on to record so awful destruction of human life on the western waters, as since the opening of navigation, the current season. The disasters to steamboats already number four, of which two have been by explosions of boilers- the Troy ...

      Another steamboat explosion on Lake Erie! Buffalo 12 o'clock July 31 We learn by a dispatch just received from Erie, that the steamer America, from Sandusky for this port, burst a steam pipe or drum, about 2 o'clock this morning, when off Barcelona, and was towed into Erie ...