1824. 
practicable obstacles to its adoption are 
what remain to be removed. That 
square-sails could be made to set as lug- 
sails, and work by a simultaneous and 
lateral movement,” is very certain; but 
the mode of doing that with not much 
more labour, and with equal safety, than 
by the present mode of slinging and 
managing the square-sail, is the great 
desideratum. 
11th.—That a ship-lugger could dis- 
pense with many of the sails at present 
used, is correct, as are also Mr. Miller’s 
general remarks on stay-sails; but never- 
theless we are not a whit nearer to our 
object by those remarks. 
12th.—The importance of the pro- 
posed project, not plan—for Mr. Miller 
has not given any new plan—for effect- 
ing the forementioned desideratum, is 
acknowledged by all. The mode of 
effecting the desired improvement is not, 
however, supplied by Mr. Miller. 
13th.—Whether “it is impossible [or 
not], by a dry description, even with the 
aid of a plate, to convey an accurate 
idea of the technical details of the man- 
ner in which the proposed ship-lugger 
could be thrown in stays,” we are not 
enabled to say; but some details, how- 
ever dry, are wanted to satisfy us that 
Mr Miller has discovered a practicable 
plan for effecting the desired purpose. 
It is not sufficient that the lug slung- 
sails can be used, and that a ship can be 
made to sail faster with them than she 
can do at present; but it must be shewn 
also, that they can be substituted for the 
present square slung-sails, with nearly 
equal safety and economy; and I do not 
think that Mr. Miller can challenge a 
trial of what is as yet unknown to his 
competitors. - 
14th.—Doubtless, “a full and fair 
trial, and the developments of practice, 
would refute or obviate [or confirm] all 
objections ;” but till Mr. Miller either 
makes known his plan to the public, or 
puts it in practice himself under a patent 
or otherwise, no one can tell what the 
results may be. 
15th.—In all which Mr. M. states in 
this paragraph I cordially agree, but the 
“practicability :” that is the point to be 
gained or explained. 
16th.—I also agree to all this para- 
graph, except what is said about a pro- 
posed plan, Mr. Miller, I repeat, has 
not proposed any new plan for effecting 
these desired improvements. 
17th.—The directors and managers of 
the navy may be indisposed to admit 
improvements which originate with hum- 
Deer Hunting in South America. 
All 
ble individuals ; but I nevertheless can- 
not see why Mr. Miller should take 2 
for granted that his plan would be re- 
jected; and I think their adoption of 
French or even American models at- 
taches no disgrace to them, unless it 
could be shewn that they had previously 
rejected those models when offered by 
native artists. —Yours, &c., J.C.R. 
A Masrer Mariner. 
—=a>—— 
Deer Huntine in Souru America. 
S the haunts of the fallow-deer or 
venays are generally far from the 
abodes of men, and as they live in con- 
tinual alarm from the depredations of 
the host of enemies, beasts and birds of 
prey, and even reptiles, that beset them, 
but for the extraordinary instinct or 
sagacity Nature has endowed them with, 
for their preservation, the race must 
long since have been extinct. The 
impenetrable mountains of the Cordil- 
leras are inhabited by immense herds of 
these animals; a species of the stag- 
kind also sometimes herds amongst 
them, though, as there seems a great 
aversion to this commixture, it must be 
considered as dictated by some neces- 
sary or instinctive policy. In those 
haunts are also to be met the cabia 
montes, or mountain-goat, so much 
admired for its symmetry of form and 
delicious flavour. The intricate and 
steep pathways leading to their couch- 
ing haunts are mostly in clefts of rocky 
precipices, inaccessible to beasts of prey; 
and even a nimble dog can scarcely skip 
from rock to rock, to the outposts where 
their yidettes are placed. Should any 
of them venture, they soon have occa- 
sion to repent their temerity. 
It is not uncommon to see the jaguar, 
the tiger, &c., who have the hardihood 
to attack their outposts, hurled by the 
butting sentinels, the horned patriarchs 
of the flock, down a precipice of five or 
six hundred feet: so that, unless im, 
pelled by extreme hunger, they never 
attack them, except in their more open 
pastures. As those ravenous creatures 
are dormant during the day, the deer 
are then partly secure. At night a 
straggler from the community is sure of 
its fate; as the jaguars hunt in packs, 
and are very quick-sceuted.. One trait 
of the South American deer is worthy 
of notice. In Europe, a hunted, deer is 
driven from amongst the herd, and 
_ abandoned to its fate: here, the guar- 
dians of the flock succour even a stran- 
ger of their community, I apprehend, 
that during the fawning season the 
3G 2 females 
