“‘She is continually crowded with visitants. She left Montreal Wednesday at 2 o’clock, so that her passage was sixty-six hours, thirty of which she was at anchor.
“‘She arrived at Three Rivers in twenty-four hours.
“‘She has at present berths for twenty passengers, which next year will be considerably augmented.
“‘No wind or tide can stop her.
“‘She has seventy-five feet keel and eighty-five feet deck. The price for a passage up is nine dollars and eight down, the vessel supplying provisions.
“‘The real advantage attending a vessel so constructed is that a passage may be calculated on to a degree of certainty in point of time, which cannot be the case with any vessel propelled by sail only.
“‘The steamboat receives her impulse from an open double spoked, perpendicular wheel on each side, without any circular band or rim.
“‘To the end of each double spoke is fixed a square board that enters the water, and a rotary motion of the wheel acts like a paddle.
“‘The wheels are kept in motion by steam operating within the vessel.
“‘A mast is to be fixed on her for the purpose of using a sail when the wind is favourable, which will occasionally accelerate her headway.’”