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per week or $25 per month ; Mobile, Ala., $3 

 per day or $7 a week ; Natchez, Miss., 25 cents 

 per day; New Orleans, La., $50 per year; 

 Newport, Ky., $1 per month ; North Carolina, 

 $100 per year ; Nevada, $100 per year ; Orange- 

 burg, S. C., $2 per day; St. Matthews, S. C., 

 $1 per day ; San Francisco, Cal., $25 per 

 quarter; Texas, $35 a year; Tucson, Arizona, 

 $50 per quarter ; Tombstone, Arizona, $10 per 

 day ; Virginia, $75 per year; Wilmington, 



propelling steamer travels is ascertained by the 

 number of revolutions or movements made per 

 minute in certain portions of the machinery. 

 It is also learned by the dropping of an object 

 attached to a line into the water at the side of 

 the stern of the vessel, which, remaining nearly 

 stationary, allows the operator to know the 

 speed by the number of knots which the line 

 runs out in a certain number of seconds. The 

 drop line, called the log line, contains a small 



N. C., $3 per day; Washington, D. C., $200 string tied into a knot at a distance of every 

 per year ; Walhalla, S. C., $1 per day. 



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47 feet and 3 inches ; hence the name " knot." 

 STEAMSHIP NAMES., The bow is the ei- 



for Stock. One hundred pounds of good treme forward part of the ship. The stern is 



hay for stock are equal to : the after part. Forward is the forepart of the 



vessel. Aft is the rear part. Amidships is 

 the central part of the vessel. Starboard is 

 the right side of the ship, looking forward. 

 Port, the left side. The Index Guide gives 

 the following description of sails, namely : 

 The masts are the fore mast, main mast, 

 and mizzen mast. The parts of the masts are 

 the fore mast, fore-top mast, fore-topgallant 

 mast, fore-royal mast, and similarly for the 

 other masts ; thus, main mast, main-top mast, 

 mizzen-top mast, etc. Booms are round, 

 heavy wooden spars to which the sails are at- 

 tached the jib-boom extending from the 

 bowsprit, the flying jib-boom being attached 

 to, but extending beyond, the jib-boom. The 

 main and mizzen booms are attached to the 

 main and mizzen masts, the spanker boom ex- 

 tends aft from the mizzen mast. Yards are 

 strong, horizontal, wooden spars, extending 

 crosswise the ship, to which the sails are at- 

 tached along up the masts. The principal 

 sails are the jib and flying jib, long triangular 

 sails extending from the fore-mast to the jib- 

 booms, and along the masts upward from the 

 deck to the try-sail, the fore-course or fore- 

 sail, or fore-top sail, fore-topgallant sail, fore- 

 royal sail, fore-sky sail, and similarly for each 

 of the other masts; thus, main try-sail, main 

 sail, main top-sail, mizzen top-sail, etc., and 

 spanker, the sternmost sail, extending from the 

 spanker boom to the gaff. The ensign or ship's 

 colors are attached to the gaff. Shrouds are 

 the ropes used to sustain the masts and extend 

 from the fore-top to the sides of the ship (the 

 rope ladders). The other ropes used as sup- 

 ports to the masts are designated stays, and 

 are named from that part of the mast to which 

 they are attached, as fore-stay, mizzen-stay, 

 fore royal-stay, mizzen-topgallant-stay, etc. 

 The jib-boom, flying jib-boom, and several of 

 the sails here mentioned, are not required and 

 are not used on the large modern steamers. 



Hero and Leander. Hero was a priest- 

 ess of Venus. Leander was a youth of Abydos, 

 a famous city on the Asiatic side of the strait 



