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Her sons were not to be drawn into the war reluctantly; they were in an even line with the fore- most on land and sea. 50 Saybroo/cs QiiadriiuillciiiaL The year 1777 opened, as we may imagine, with increaseu fever in the veins of Revolution. In April, the town receives peculiar renown through the scientific genius of one of her sons, David Bushnell, who was born in the Westbrook parish. This man appears before Governor and Council to exhibit a torpedo arrangement for naval warfare. The acute mi...nds of Brother Jonathan and Gen. Putnam were not slow to see the merits of his idea, and they furnished him with the requisite provision, that he might put it to an immediate trial. Making his headquarters at our ferry, he then went to work to construct the famous "American Turtle, " by which one Yankee expected to sink the whole British navy. The inventor began with A in the alphabet of the science. His first labor was to prove that gunpowder would explode under water. Then he built the boat. It outwardly resembled two tortoise shells in contact, seven and one-half feet long, with just room for the captain, who was also the crew in this case, and with air enough to last thirty minutes.
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