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It will consequently be seen that a vessel which was of extraordinary- 

 depth and very narrow on deck would have an exceedingly great car- 

 rying capacity in proportion to her tonnage. It was, therefore, the 

 custom of some merchants to build their vessels of this type for the 

 foreign trade in order to escape as much as possible the payment of 

 onerous tonnage dues in the various ports which they visited. As an 

 instance of the great carrying capacity of the brigs built from this 

 model, the story is told that one of them, the Keying, of a little less 

 than 300 tons burden, landed 700 tons of coal in Jamaica, which she 

 had brought from Cardiff. A second model of special interest in the 

 collection received from Mr. Gushing is that of a Baltimore clipper 

 brig of 1845. This model, which was designed for a vessel of about 255 

 tons, is in an excellent state of preservation, and gives us a very good 

 idea of the extreme clipper vessels of the period when it was con- 

 structed. One other model, that of the brig Dove, built in 1817, is also 

 worthy of mention. This is the earliest form of a square-rigged vessel 

 of which we have a builder's model. 



(18) A beautiful builder's model of the ship Oregon, of Bath, Me., 

 has been presented to the Museum by Mr. William Rogers, of Batli. 

 This model is an excellent representative of the type of "half clipper" 

 ships of the present day, which for the general purpose of trade now 

 existing have been found the most useful. As the result of many 

 years' experience, the ship-builders of to-day have succeeded in com- 

 bining in a very high degree excellent sailing qualities with great 

 capacity. Therefore a vessel is obtained which may make rapid pas- 

 sages and carry a cargo sufficiently large to pay her owners a good 

 freight. This ship may be taken as a fair illustration of the highest 

 type of the cotton carriers of the present day, in which trade, we are 

 informed, she has been employed to a greater or less extent. 



(19) Mr. William P. Pattee has presented to the Museum four rather 

 interesting models of old style merchant vessels, and, together with 

 Mr. F. W. Weeks, has given us a fine builder's model of the ship Glas- 

 gow, built at Bath, Me., in 183G, and employed in the cotton trade 

 between New Orleans and Liverpool This model is mounted on a 

 board, with head, keel, rudder, &c., attached, and is painted in the 

 same manner as the ship which was built from it. It is especially val- 

 uable as representing the finest type of cotton carrier of the period 

 between 1830 and 1840. 



(20) Five models of modern merchant vessels, four of which are three- 

 masted schooners, have been given to the Museum by C P. Carter & 

 Co., Belfast, Me. This collection is chiefly interesting from showing 

 different forms of three-masted schooners emi>loyed in various trades. 

 Two of these, the Meyer and Muller, and the Nellie S. Picking, represent 

 the wide, light-draught ty])e of vessel employed in the coasting trade 

 of the Soutli Atlantic and Gulf ports, where the harbors are generally 



