Ortsotng for Punt0 nut) Canots. 



To keep gunning punts and canoes from leaking, or, 

 as those who use them call it, weeping, melt a pint of 

 tar with a pound of pitch, and either half a pint of 

 common oil, or a proportional quantity of suet. You 

 have then only to pour a little of this mixture into the 

 seams of your punt ; and, instead of bedaubing her all 

 over the bottom, as we did in the old school, ten or 

 twelve years ago, have the bottom painted, with one 

 or two thin coats of red lead, which will last much 

 longer, and with which the boat rows much lighter. 



White rosin and mutton suet is even a better dressing, 

 and by far the lightest of any. To avoid rubbing the 

 bottom of your punt every time she is hauled ashore, 

 have two small rollers, by which you will considerably 

 save her. 



Have your canoes and punts, previously to being put 

 together, painted under every timber with red lead, arid 

 they will (to the no small annoyance of the builder) last 

 you twice as long. But where the other paint is to go, 

 do not put red lead, as white will neither look nor take 

 so well upon it. 



If you want good white lead for paint (instead of 

 whiting and water), you can have it from Messrs. 

 Walker, Parker, & Co., at the shot manufactory. 



