The through mails to the West now go in iron-bound boxes instead of leathern bags. Each box, tightly packed, contains about eight hundred letters.
The first steam vessel used in Great Britain was called the Comet, and built by Henry Bell in 1812. It was thirty tuns burden.
OFFICIAL REPORT OF PATENTS AND CLAIMS
Issued by the United States Patent Office,
FOR THE WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 10, 1867.
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