It is, however, unnecessary here to venture upon the further history of steam navigation.
In the midst of these repeated inventions and experiments, Murdock was becoming an old man.

Yet he never ceased to take an interest in the works at Soho.

At length his faculties experienced a gradual decay, and he died peacefully at his house at Sycamore Hill, on the 15th of November,1839, in his eighty-fifth year.

He was buried near the remains of the great Boulton and Watt; and a bust by Chantrey served to perpetuate the remembrance of his manly and intelligent countenance.
Footnotes for Chapter V.
[1] Fletcher's Political Works, London, 1737, p.

149, [2] One of the Murdocks built the cathedral at Glasgow, as well as others in Scotland.