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Just think, suppose it had been parted on the left side and had counterbalanced Miss Dum's hat tipped toward the right!

From At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins by Speed, Nell

Scale drawing in Statens Sjöhistoriska Museum, Stockholm The engine is shown to have had counterbalanced side levers, one on each side, and a single flywheel on the outboard side.

From Fulton's "Steam Battery": Blockship and Catamaran by Chapelle, Howard I. (Howard Irving)