Note 15 — Chapter I · Dawnings of Steam Power—The Marquis of Worcester.

Mr. Woodcroft is, however, of opinion that the Marquis’s contrivance was but a boat with paddle-wheels, with an axis across it, which axis was turned by the action of the stream on the paddles, and thus wound up a rope and dragged the boat onward to the other end of the rope fixed by an anchor; certainly a more clumsy and less notable contrivance than that of a steamboat.