18 ISLES OF SUMMER. 
leisure hours. No expense was apparently spared to make it in 
all respects first-class, and in it are embodicd the latest and best 
improvements and appliances of marine architecture. 
The length of the Savannah, measuring fifteen feet from the 
water line, is 260 feet; its length over all is 275 feet. It is 38 
feet 6 inches beam molded. Her depth from base line to tip of 
spar deck is 26 feet 10 inches ; depth of hold 24 feet ; total depth 
below spar deck 75 feet. Her registered tonnage is 2,092.84; 
tons. She can carry at one time 4,000 bales of cotton. She has 
three decks besides the hurricane deck. The spar deck is entirely 
of iron; the main deck is partly of iron, and the deck frames 
are all of iron. She was at first brig-rigged, and could spread 
5,000 yards of canvass; but the spars on the mainmast have 
been taken down, as it was found that they were not needed, so 
that now her rigging is that of a hermaphrodite brig. 
The dining saloon is located aft the main hatch on the main 
deck, and is 50 feet by 29 fect at a distance of 30 feet from the 
main stairway. Aft of and near the dining saloon, is the 
main saloon with rows of state-rooms; each state-room is ele- 
gantly and conveniently fitted up, and has a window looking 
out upon the ocean. A small saloon over the dining saloon is 
called ‘‘social hall,” and being so fortunate as to have a room 
which opened into this ‘‘ hall,” the author is able to testify that 
““social hall” is decidedly the best part of the ship. There is 
another saloon with state-rooms aft the main hatch, but it is 
much less desirable than the other two. 
The saloons are elaborately and most beautifully finished 
with the choicest woods that moncy could secure. The natural 
grain has been preserved and the polished surfaces are as hard 
and smooth as glass. Cherry, mahogany, black walnut, bird’s ~ 
eye maple, tulip wood and amaranth are so combined as to pro- 
duce the best esthetic effect, and one never tires looking at and 
studying them, 
