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MOTOR BOAT 



can legation at Saint Petersburg (Petrograd), 

 but resigned the office after a brief period. 



A second novel, 

 Merry Mount, a 

 romance of the 

 Massachusetts 

 colony, was pub- 

 lished in 1849, 

 after which la- 

 decided that his- 

 tory, rather than 

 fiction, was his 

 chosen pursuit. 

 In 1858 he went 

 to England, where 

 he received the 

 degree of D. C. L. 

 from Oxford. He was appointed American 

 minister to the court of Saint James in Eng- 

 land in 1869 by President Grant, but was re- 

 called, for unexplained reasons, the following 

 year. The last of his historical works, The Life 



JOHN L. MOTLEY 



i in hanks along streams. The eggs are a 

 glossy white or cream color, and number three 

 or four. These birds are related to the king- 

 fisher (which see). They feed on insects, rep- 

 tiles and fruits. 



MOTOR, mo'Ur, BOAT, a small boat pro- 

 pelled by an internal combustion engine or by 

 electricity. Motor boating has been styled 

 "automobiling on the water," and originally all 

 motor boats were constructed for pleasure. 

 Their popularity is due to the perfection of the 

 gas engine (which see). Small pleasure boats 

 are from twenty to forty feet, and large ones 

 from forty to sixty-five feet in length. A small 

 boat with a 12-horse-power engine may have a 

 speed of ten miles an hour; with a 20-horse- 

 power engine it may have a speed of sixteen to 

 eighteen miles. Racing boats and large pleas- 

 ure boats have more powerful engines. The 

 best racers often attain a speed of thirty to 

 thirty-five miles an hour, and a few boats have 

 exceeded forty miles for short distances. The 



MOTOR BOAT 

 Showing location of engine (a), propeller (6), and rudder (c). 



and Death of John of Barnevcld, published in 



1^7 1, was a rounding-out of the volumes previ- 



wntten concerning the life history of the 



icrlanders. Motley's scholarly treatment of 



ubject, his brilliant and picturesque style, 



and the spirit of liberty that animates his works 



him rank among the most distinguished of 



-in historians. 



M T'M T, a 



.-me bird with 



plumage of blue. 



green and cinnamon, 



tail feath- 



; i'h UK in racket- 

 shaped tips. ; 

 found in tin west- 

 from 



o to Brazil, 

 and is sometimes 

 called the hoo-hoo, 



i its cry. It ia a bird of solitary habits, h\ - 



nm only with its mate and keeping to gloomy 



>ts. Its nest is built in a round hole at the 



of a tunnel about six feet in length, exca- 



averuge pleasure boat . however, has a speed 

 ryinp from five to ton or twelve miles an hour. 

 The essential parts of a motor boat are tin 

 boat, the motor, the fuel tank and the steering 

 apparatus. The boat is so constructed that th<- 

 bow is n.urow and does not sink far into the 

 water. The motor is placed low down and 

 firmly fastened to the boat so as to give firm- 

 ness and ballast to the ntire struct 

 propeller shaft slants downward, and may ! 

 attached directly to the motor, connected with 

 it 1)\- a clutch. The motors are reversible, so 

 that the boat can be moved forward or back- 

 ward. The fuel tank is placed in the bow high 

 enough above the motor to enal>l< tin m. I t.. 

 flow to the cylinders without the use of a pump 

 Tin- steering apparatus should l>e firmly at- 

 tached to the boat, and ea>.v to operate. 



In the newest patterns of largo pleasure boats 

 tin- automol.ilr up,- Q| . nuine w used and th- 

 steering apparatus is operated by a wheel .- 

 1 11 to that used for steering the automol>il< 

 The space for paiweng< >usly 



furnished and a folding canopy enables the oc- 

 cupants to be protected from wind and storm. 



