then that our ploughmen would not now use, and all that advancement in twenty-five years."
In the year 1833, the British government abolished the last remains of slavery throughout all the British empire, and Great Britain being mistress of the seas, slavery's doom upon the seas was then sealed.
In the year 1835 an order in council was obtained for the appointment of a chief engineer and inspector of machinery at Woolwich dock-yard, which was the beginning of the engineering department in the British navy.
In the year 1836 the Great Western Steamship Company was organized. And their first steam-ship, the Great Western, sailed from Bristol on April 8, 1838, and reached New York on the morning of the twenty-third of the same month, making her return passage in fourteen days.
It was, in all probability, then that this mighty angel with the rainbow upon his head, with one end of the rainbow resting upon the British Isles, representing the eastern hemisphere, and the other end resting upon the United States, representing the western hemisphere, and span-
