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the fog, be lost by running on the rocks. Nothing 

 but neglect of the oldest of sailors' maxims, " lead 

 log, and look-out," can possibly ever, in such 

 circumstances, lead to such a disaster. 



62. But there is a danger affecting navigation 

 in all weathers, though with greatest intensity 

 in fogs, which no degree of human skill and 

 conscientiousness can reduce to absolute zero, 

 and ttfat is collision. 



The " Regulations for Preventing Collisions at 

 Sea," l which I hold in my hand, embody as in- 

 ternational law everything that human wisdom 

 has been able to devise up to the present time 

 for diminishing the chances of collision. A vast 

 majority of the collisions which have taken place, 

 have been produced by breach of these rules by one 

 ship or the other, or both. 



REGULATIONS FOR PREVENTING COLLISION 

 AT SEA. Here are some of them: "Art. 10. 

 Whenever there is fog, whether by day or by 



1 Issued in pursuance of the Merchant Shipping Act Amend- 

 ment Act, 1862, and of an Order in Council, dated Qth January 

 1863, and adopted by twenty-nine maritime nations by various 

 orders, dating from 1st May 1863 to 3Oth Aug. 1864. 



