The Massachusetts Spy, And Worcester County Advertiser

The Baltimore Gazette contains a view of the "Baltimore Locomotive Engine." It is an invention for carrying passengers upon the rail road with great speed, and without so much distress to the horse as is the case by the present mode. "The horse or other animal, it is intended, shall ride on the carriage, being hooked to the frame of the body and walking upon a revolving floor, which floor is placed on endless chains or bands of leather, and they passing round drums or pulley wheels placed on both axles of the carriage, in such a way that when the horse is put in motion, he being hooked to the body of the carriage, and travelling upon this revolving floor, communicates a propelling power to the road wheels; by this means the increase in the speed of the carriage over the actual travel of the horse or other animal, would be in proportion as the diameter of the drawers, or pulley wheels, are smaller than the road wheels—that is supposing the horse to walk at the rate of three miles per hour, the carriage and horse will be propelled fifteen miles in the same time, and with but little fatigue to the horse."