_Invention of Steam Power._--The following doggerel is the burden of a
common street-ditty, among the boys of Campden, in Gloucestershire.
"Jonathan Hulls,
With his paper skulls,
Invented a machine
To go against wind and stream;
But he, being an ass,
Couldn't bring it to pass,
And so was asham'd to be seen."
Now this Jonathan Hulls was the great grandfather of a man of the same
name, now residing in Campden; so that if there be any truth in the
tradition, the application of steam power to the propulsion of hulls must
be long prior to the time of _Watts his name!_
Can any reader of NOTES AND QUERIES throw any light on the inventions of
this man Hulls?