17-4 ECONOA^Y AT SEA. 



XVIII. 



Account of the Vcrformance of the patent Ship Economy at Sea, 

 in a J'oyage to the JVrfi India Jjland'i, and of fame Improve- 

 ment in the Tackle aboard, proved of great Utility* By Mr» 

 J. Whitley Boswell. 



To Mr. NICHOLSON. 



Dear Sir, 

 Defcviptloii of /\s In a former number of your Tournal *, you favoured me 



the fliip s con. ,./•. . ^ • ■ r , n ^- r t n - t- 



ftruftion has ^y inlerting a delcription ot the conltruclion ot the Ihip li.co- 

 becn publifhed nomy, built according to ray patent, I hope you will alfo admit 

 number of this ^'^^ following account of her performance at fea, and of fome 

 work, other matters ; of confiderable utility to naval concerns. 



Your Journal is principally devoted to the furtherance of 

 the moft ufeful of all knowledge, that of experiments in Philo- 

 The fubjea: fophy and the Arts. And to a nation which like this depends on 

 proper for the its ftiipping for moft of (he many advantages it enjoys over 

 tain[ngan\T"" ^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^ world, what experiments can be more iropot* 

 count of an ex- tant, or ought to be more interefting, than thofe which con- 



to the nation. The experiment which has been made on this occafion is 

 and on a great entitled fo a farther fuperiority over other ufual experiments, 

 an account of the large fum of money required for condu6ling 

 it, which altogether rather exceeded 5000/. and on this oc- 

 cafion it is but juflice to mention the fpirit with which Wm. 

 Gentlemen who Lufhington, Efq. of this City, and Richard Griffith, Efq. of 

 this experiment. J-'i^^^''^ ^^^e came forward to aflift in making this experiment, 

 whofe property the fliip principally is, (my (hare of it being 

 comparatively fmall to theirs); to thofe gentlemen this country 

 is chiefly indebted for proving a matter of great utility to its 

 The plan muft naval concerns, and which fooner or later rauft be of the 



lie of great ufe grgateft advantage to it, when the plan comes into ufe, though 



lo the nation ° ^ . . 



when adopted, the fpirit of the times may defer this period until it (hall ceafe 



to be of any benefit to us, and others may reap the profit of 



Ihefe gentlemens public fpirit and my labour and ftudy ; but 



as I waited till I fhould have the proof of actual experiment 



to add, to that of a theory (which though founded on on- 



* Vol, IX. p. I66t 

 2 erring 



