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and therefore ought to be preferred to any other mode of 

 fixture. 



lO.w-No rule can be laid down that will fit all boats, as 

 to the precise quantity of cork, or size of casks, their shape 

 and dimensions being so various; but from the general rule 

 that has been stated, and the purpose to be served, every 

 man may easily adjust his apparatus to his boat, or make 

 such little alterations iu the boat as may be found couvenient 

 or necessary. 

 A sail advan- 1 1. — No sail can hurt this boat, as it is supposed she has 

 tageous, only to go right before the wind, and therefore a sail may 



be used with very great. advantage. This would render 

 oars unnecessary, and would be infinitely preferable. It is 

 almost needless to add, that the boat could be steered in 

 midships. 

 Disadvantage!, 1 2. — The great benefit derived from the common life- 

 of the common boats is well known, and universally acknowledged; but 

 they are very far from being adequate to the calamity they 

 are intended to remedy. Their number comparatively is 

 very few, and the sphere of their operations extremely li- 

 mited. In darkness by night, and in thick snow by day, 

 when their aid is most wanted, they are of no avail. Storms 

 may blow, and sometimes have blown so hard as to defeat 

 their utmost exertions ; and even in the most favourable 

 cases, they require a considerable time before they can reach 

 the wreck ; in the mean time the vessel may be dashed to 

 pieces, and all hands lost. 

 Superiority of '^^^ ^^'*y Preeminent advantage of the shipboat in these 

 fhe present, and several other respects is very conspicuous. This boat 

 is wherever the ship is, and recourse may immediately be 

 had to her ; is of equal utility by night as by day, and in 

 - the thickest as well as in the clearest weather; and while 

 the lifeboat, with extreme slow progress, must be impelled 

 {(gainst wind and sea by a force superior to both, the ship- 

 boat has only to drift with ease before the storm, 

 Tiief principle IS.—As it may serve to gain confidence with those who 

 ihe^same in Q^e not otherwise qualified to judge of the plan, it may be 

 observed, that the shipboat i.s prepared upon the very same 

 principles as the liffeboat, and that these principles are ap- 

 plied to-a^reat^r ad^antagte in the former than in the latter. 



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