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Rh and his feet were like in color to polished brass. If you will go down to our harbor (Cleveland) when the magnificent steamer City of Cleveland is at her dock, in viewing her ponderous machinery, if you will look high enough, you will see a great beam, and when the steamer moves off from her moorings this great beam will sway, assuming a walking position. Now what do you call that a walking-beam for? Is it because it is the one foot that this mighty angel placed upon the sea? And it is in color like unto polished brass.

If you will look a little more carefully at our steam-engines as they stand at our depots or stations, or as they pass along our railroads, or if you should look at any of the mighty engines that keep the wheels and the machinery of our mills and manufactories in almost perpetual motion, you will see arms or rods of iron. These arms or rods of iron are known to steam-engineers as the connecting-rod, and the piston-rod, and the eccentric-rod, and so on. Now it is more than likely that these are the rods of iron, or that this is the rod of iron mentioned in the