104 imp'* JLIFEBOAT. 



, It might be fitted on with clothes or without in half 9 



minute, and made fast by a knot or clasp on the breast ; 



three pounds of good cork would be sufficient to support any 



man, and the expense no more than in the former case. 



Alinemight 5. — Another expedient bids fair for obtaining a speedy 



on shore by a conaa^unication betwixt the ship and the shore, by means of 



kite a kite. 



It is the property of this machine, to ascend in propor- 

 tion as the cord is spared off. 



To manage this, and to bring the line within reach on 

 shore, let a piece of light wood, about the size of a small 

 handspike, be attached to the line, about twelve fathoms 

 from the kite; the line to be fixed to the forepart of the 

 stick, and so as to pull only there, and then being slackly 

 laid along the stick, made fast to the other end : by this 

 means the kite would be prevented from rising higher, and 

 would, at the same time bring the line to the shore from the 

 ship, and by this small Une a rope might be hauled from 

 the ship by any spectator on the shore. 



A silk handkerchief, and a piece of wooden hoop, might 

 «oon furnish a kite, 

 crby a spread 6. — Sometimes people are seen to perish, where those on 

 '* shore, and those on the wreck, are almost within grasp of 



each other. 



In this case, if there happened to be a mast standing, a 

 common ensign made fast to a stick, just strong enough to 

 keep it spread, uid quickly spared oft' from the mast head, 

 would probably reach the shore without touching the water, 

 or at least drift on shore with a small line attached to it. 



No experiments having been made upon these substitutes 

 and expedients, they are barely mentioned, as things that 

 might possibly succeed, and are thrown out as hints for 

 others to improve upon, after much consideration on my 

 part. 



invention of After this follow testimonies of approbation, from which 



thelifeboat, j^ appears, that a boat prepared according to Mr. Brem- 



ner's plan, when overset by ropes applied for the purpose, 



righted herself immediately when these ropes were removed. 



The plan was not copied {torn that of the lifeboat, as it was 



communicated 



