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Mr Harris on the Utility qfjixing 



TABLE. 



19. The manner in which conductors here proposed are ap- 

 plied to the mast, gives the form of the whole, — that of a flat- 

 tened, conical surface, — wide at the base, and diminishing gra- 

 dually to a point. 



It has been stated by one of the most eminent of the French 



