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coat was no ordinary appendage or vestment in the first years of 

 the reign of Queen Anne. 



" John C-yte his book, whosoever doth this 

 Book steal, he shall be sent to Exeter geal ; 

 And if he wear a velvet coat, up with the ladder 

 And down with the rope." 



By way of summing up, it may be remarked that this book 

 came honestly into the possession of the present proprietor, 

 whether stolen from or sold by the first : while its preservation to 

 the present day is almost miraculous. It was seen, exposed as 

 a victim, on the counter of a rapacious book-immolating grocer, 

 redeemed for certain pieces of silver, and given a first place 

 among its master's purchased favourites, which it still continues 

 to hold. 



J. R. B. 



REVIEW. 



Papers on Naval Architecture, in reply to the Papers of Mr. 

 Henwood, of the School of Naval Architecture, which appeared 

 in Nos. 33 and 34 of the " Nautical Magazine :^^ and several 

 other unpublished Papers, in continuation of those which have 

 already appeared in the " Nautical Magazine,^^ on the Axis of 

 'Rotation of a Ship ; and other important points : by Commander 

 John Pearse, R. N. Longman and Co., London; Bartlett, 

 Plymouth, p. p. 79. 



By the commencement of Capt. Pearce's papers, it appears that 

 Mr. Henwood has asserted that the point, which the eminent 

 French author " M. Bouguer'' considers to be the place of the 

 metacentre or point of stability, "is not coincident with the ver- 

 tical and longitudinal plane which divides the ship into two equal 

 and similar parts, unless the angle of heeling is infinitely small :" 

 and, in support of this, Mr. H. refers to a certain part of the 

 arguments of this author, in his " Traite du Navire." 



Captain Pearce has, however, shewn, not only by the very 

 arguments referred to, that the metacentre of Bouguer is always 

 in the vertical and longitudinal plane, wliich divides the ship into 

 two equal and similiar parts ; but, likewise, by a quotation 

 which he has given from another part of the same work, which 

 is so clear and explicit as not to be misunderstood, and which 

 plainly shews that Bouguer considers tlie metacentre to be in the 

 above mentioned plane, when the ship is inclined, as he ex- 

 presses it, ^He plus qu'il est possible.''' Mr. H. must therefore 

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