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Bath-room. — The captain's bath-room, 6 feet 10 inches long and 4 feet 

 10 inches wide, is on the starboard side of the deck-house, abaft the 

 captain's room, and communicates with it. A door on the starboard 

 side opens on the promenade deck. The room has two windows, one on 

 the starboard side and one in the after end ; a bath-tub, wash-stand, 

 mirror, &c. 



There is a state-room on the port side of the deck-house, abaft the 

 captain's room, 6 feet 10 inches in length, 7 feet wide; the sky-light 

 extending over it. A door communicates with the bath-room, and 

 another, on the port side, with the i)romenade deck. There is a window 

 on the port side and one aft ; a folding bed, a secretary-bureau, wash- 

 stand, lamp, mirror, steam heater, &c., in the room. The funnel is 

 about 2 feet abaft the deck-house, the engine-room sky-light abaft the 

 funnel. 



The laboratory.— ThQ laboratory, 10 feet 7 inches in length, 9 feet 11 

 inches wdde, and 7 feet 3 inches high, is abaft the engine-room sky-light, 

 and covers the entrance to the cabin. It has a boolc-case, work-table, 

 specimen case, box for microscope, and the necessary shelves and drawers. 

 There are two windows on each side, two in the forward end, and one 

 aft. The door is in the after end. 



Abaft the laboratory is the mainmast, cabin skylight, standard com- 

 j)ass, rudder head, tiller, &c. 



Steering gear. — The steering gear consists of an iron tiller, secured to 

 the rudder head on the promenade deck, with chains extending through 

 sheaves on each quarter. Iron wire wheel ropes are led over small 

 rollers on each side of the promenade deck, the after ends secured to 

 chains and the forward ends to the after block of the sliding purchase, 

 which consists of two single blocks, the fall leading over the barrel ot 

 the wheel in the pilot-house. 



Spars. — The vessel is schooner rigged, the foremast 49 feet in length 

 above deck and 17 inches in diameter; mainmast 46 feet, and 14 inches 

 in diameter; the poles 15 feet in length, the masts and poles in one 

 stick. The fore-gaff 23 feet, and main-gatf 18^ feet in length, diam- 

 eter 5 inches, main-boom 38 feet long and 8 inches in diameter. 



Sails. — There are three sails, fore stay-sail, foresail, and mainsail, 

 all of cotton canvas; the staysail of No. 2, the foresail and mainsail 

 of No. 3. 



Anchors and chains. — There are three anchors, the largest weighing 

 1,525 x^onnds, including the stock; one 846 pounds, and one 307 pounds, 

 stocks included. Two chain cables, one ninety fathoms 1^ inches, the 

 other 75 fathoms || inch in diameter. 



Boats. — The vessel has four boats; 1st, a steam cutter built by the 

 Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Bristol, E. I., 24 feet in length, 6 

 feet 9 inches beam and 3 feet 6 inches depth; weight, 2,900 pounds; 

 capacity of coal bunkers, 560 pounds, sufficient for 28 hours' steaming at 

 6 knots per hour; a fresh- water tank holding 40 gallons of water, enough 



