Codman Hislop "Who," wrote young Professor Jonathan Pearson of Union College, following the report of this folk tale, "made this lie?"17 Finally, on September 9, 1840, buried among newer excitements in an Albany newspaper, was a notice one may read either as the real obituary of that strangely starred boat, or as an announcement of her rebirth: "Steamboat Eureka, Captain Sherman, using boilers transferred from the Novelty, makes her first appearance."18 As the depression receded and new boats were again put on the ways, more of them each year were designed for anthracite furnaces, and even the Association capitulated. In 1846 Isaac Newton, a partner in the Hudson River Association, added the New World to his North River fleet. A floating palace hailed as the most luxurious boat of her day, "she owed her source of power," it was reported, "to the versatile Eliphalet Nott of Union College." 19 In the same year the Thomas Powell, burning anthracite, was put on the Newburgh run, "a favorite with the Public . . . and of more than average good speed." By 1852, the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company was reporting that the year had seen "a rapidly increasing demand from sea-going steamers for . . . Lackawanna coal."20 However, Dr. Nott's water-tube boilers and anthracite furnaces, still costly to build and to maintain, had to wait for general use until the development of better engines, iron sheathing for hulls, stricter inspection laws, and the screw propeller, and until the marine architects made their steamboats as functional in relation to their motive power as the packet builders had their graceful wooden clippers to the sweep of the wind. If the "new era" in steamboat transportation which the New York Herald proclaimed the S.S. Novelty had opened on June 23, 1836 was de- 17 Jonathan Pearson, Diaries, ms. volumes in the Union College archives. Entry for March 31, 1840, based on an unnamed newspaper account. Dr. Nott lived until 1866. 18 Morrison, History of American Steamboat Navigation, 156. 19 Hill, Sidewheeler Saga, 101. 20 Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, Annual Report, 1852. 339