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window on each side and a skylight 3 by 3 feet above, drawers for 

 charts, &c., a berth, washstand, lockers, book-shelves, and a transom 

 sofa, which is also used as a chronometer chest. A door in the forward 

 bulkhead gives access to the pilot-house. 



8. PILOT-HOUSE (plate VI). 



This is the next and last divisi on of the deck-house. It is 8 feet in 

 length, the full width of the house, and has one door on each side. The 

 front is elliptical, with glass windows, balanced by weights, and pro- 

 tected iu bad weather by strong wooden shutters hung in the same 

 manner as the windows and fitted with 8-inch bull's-eyes in the center. 



The pilot-house is raised about 3 feet above the main-deck and pro- 

 jects the same distauce above the top of the house, with which it com- 

 municates by two windows. Suitable bell-pulls and speaking-tubes 

 furnish the necessary means of communication with the engine-room, 

 and iastead of the ordinary ship's wheel a Higgiuson's steam quarter- 

 master is used. 



TOP-GALLANT FORECASTLE. 



The top-gallant forecastle is 44 feet in length and 6 feet 3 inches in 

 lieight between decks. On it are stowed the anchors, which are handled 

 by a single fish-davit amidships and a capstan which can be worked by 

 hand or by the steam-windlass (Plate XIV) directly underneath. On 

 the port side aft is the Sigsbee deep-sea sounding machine, and just 

 abaft the capstan is a 3-inch breech-loading rifle mounted on a boat 

 carriage. 



Underneath the forecastle are water-closets for ofiicers and men, 

 bath-room for men, lamp-room, paint-locker, steam -windlass, and car- 

 penter's bench. Two scuttles give access, one to the store-rooms, mag- 

 azine, &c., forward of the collision bulkhead, and the other to the berth 

 deck. 



BERTH DECK (PLATE VIl). 



This includes the space 40 feet aft from the collision bulkhead, and 

 is 7 feet 10 inches between decks. It is supplied with light and air by 

 the fore hatch, fore scuttle, and by eight 8-inch air-ports, four on each 

 side. Hacks for stowing bags and hammocks are fitted along the sides; 

 the space abaft the fore hatch is occupied by the reeling-engine, and 

 near the forward bulkhead are two scuttles opening into the ice-boxes. 



ICE-BOXES. 



These occupy the space 7 feet aft from the collision bulkhead the 

 whole width of the ship. A strong fore and aft bulkhead amidships 

 divides this space into two compartments; the sides and ends are fitted 

 double with an intervening air-space of four inches which is filled with 

 proper non-conducting material. The inside is lined throughout with 



