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7. The yard of every mast haugs across, only the yards 

 of the mizenmasts hang sloping, one end up and the other 

 down, in the rest they hang straight across the masts like 

 unto the letter T. 



8. The mainsails of the mainmast, foremast, and boar- 

 sprit, are of a quadrangular parallelogram form ; the top 

 and main-topsails somewhat sharp, and growing narrow at 

 the top; but the top mizensails are sharp, the lower or 

 mainsails triangular. 



9. In a ship of eleven hundred tons, which was one hun 

 dred and twelve feet long in the keel, and forty in breadth 

 in the hold; the mainsail of the mainmast was two and 

 forty feet deep and eighty-seven feet broad. 



10. The topsail of the same mast was fifty feet deep, and 

 eighty-four feet broad at the bottom, and forty-two at the 

 top. 



11. The main-topsail was seven and twenty feet deep, and 

 two and forty broad at the bottom, and one and twenty at 

 the top. 



12. The foremast mainsail was forty feet and a half deep, 

 and seventy-two feet broad. 



13. The topsail was six and forty feet and a half deep, 

 and sixty-nine feet broad at the bottom, and six and thirty 

 at the top. 



14. The main-topsail was four and twenty feet deep, six 

 and thirty feet broad at the bottom, and eighteen feet at 

 the top. 



15. The mizen-mainsail was on the upper part of the 

 yard one and fifty feet broad, in that part which was joined 

 to the yard seventy-two feet, the rest ending in a sharp 

 point. 



16. The topsail was thirty feet deep, fifty-seven feet broad 

 at the bottom, and thirty feet at the top. 



17. If there be two mizenmasts, the hindermost sails are 

 less than the foremost about the fifth part. 



18. The mainsail of the boarsprit was eight and twenty 

 feet deep and a half, and sixty feet broad. 



19. The topsail five and twenty feet and a half deep, and 

 sixty feet broad at the bottom, and thirty at the top. 



20. The proportions of masts and sails do vary, not only 

 according to the bigness of ships, but also according to the 

 several uses for which they are built: some for fighting, 

 some for merchandise, some for swiftness, &e. But the 

 proportion of the dimension of sails is no way proportioned 

 to the number of tons whereof the ships consist, seeing a 



