APPENDIX.
Since writing the foregoing pages, we have learned that Mr. Henry Gillman, United States Consul at Jerusalem, has reported to the Department of State that three American loco-motives, made in Philadelphia and intended for the new railway from Jerusalem to Jaffa (Joppa), had arrived at Jaffa. Our consul says that it must be interesting to American citizens to know that the first locomotives ever used in this ancient land were made in the United States.
We shall now present two illustrations of the power of the steam-engine, and of its ability to accomplish the mission it is sent to performone from the sea and the other from the land.
One of the most eventful and interesting sea voyages upon record is Saint Paul's voyage to Rome. It is interesting because two of the voyagers were Saint Paul and Saint Luke, the two men who wrote probably half of the New
