CHAP. I.] THE EQUIPMENT OF THE SHIP. 63 
The canvas pads represented in the figure on the dredge-frame 
The dredge is 
are only to protect the seizings of the loops. 
suspended from an inch-iron chain, which forms the first few 
fathoms of the dredging-line. The chain is not, however, di- 
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, Fie. 16.—The Dredge. 
