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Split ts Eye-fplice, end-s opened,^. 33 ; finiihcd, fig. 34; 



fhort -fplice, ends opened and bid together,^. 35; finiflied, 

 Jig. 36 ; long-fplice, ends opened and laid for fplicing, Jig. 37 ; 

 finiflied, Jig. 38 ; cunt-fplice, ends opened and laid for 

 fplicing, fig. 39 ; finiflied and ferved over the (\A\cc,fig. 40 ; 

 cable-fplice for drawing, end? opened, tapered, and pointed, 

 Jig. 41 ; tapered (hort-fplice, Jig. 42. This fplice is ferved 

 all over the fplice. 



Hawfer, the ends opened, Jig. 43 ; tapered and pointed, 

 Jig. 44; ditto with a hccket, Jig. 45. 



Worming, fig. 46 ; parfling, Jig . 47 ; ferving, Jig. 48 ; 

 platting, Jig. 49. 



The ropes, &c. for the feveral parts of rigging are, in 

 circumference and in length, according to the eitablifhed 

 dimenlions for mips of every clafs, particularly in the 

 navy. 



There is no one undeviating mode which is purfucd in the 

 progreifive rigging of fhips. It is an operation which mult 

 at all times depend upon the time allotted for its perform- 

 ance, and the neceflity of immediate fitting. The nature 

 of it, however, is fuel), that all parts may he advancing at 

 the fame time, the lower malts and bowfprit being fixed. 



Fore, main, and mizen majls, have girtline-blocks laflicd 

 round the maft-head, above the Itop of the cap, one to 

 hang 011 each fide. The girtlines that reeve through them 

 lead down upon deck, for hoilling the rigging, tops, &c. 

 and the men employed to place the rigging over the malt- 

 head. 



Pendants of tackles are wormed, parcelled, and ferved 

 with fpun-yarn, in the way of the fplice (which is to the fize 

 of the mall-head) ; they have large iron thimbles fpliced into 

 thi ir lower ends ; are then wormed, &c. as above, the 

 whole length in the houfe ; and are the firft thing put over 

 the malt-head, relting on the bolit«rs, they being firlt 

 clothed with w>rn canvas feveral times doubled and tarred. 

 Thofe over the mizen-maft are called burton-pendants, as 

 ,2, 3, Plate III. fig. 1. 



Shrouds. — The cablet is warped round two iron fids fixed 

 in the floor, dillant from each other the length of the firlt 

 warp ; that is, from the top of the holder to the foremolt 

 dead-eye ; one end of the cablet is made fait to the lower 

 fid, and the remainder paffed round the upper fid ; and fo on 

 alternately, one turn clofe to the back of another. The 

 additional length, gained by the turns lying round each 

 other, is fufficient for the lengthening of each pair of 

 flirouds, as they rake aft. When the whole gang of flirouds 

 is warped out, the bights at the lower end are cut through, 

 in a ftraight direction, with the fids. 



Brigs have four pair of fhrouds forward, and the fore- 

 moll fhroud and pendant are in one. The upper bightB are 

 defigned fvr the eyes, and the outer turns arc called fiuiflers, 

 and are left from four to five feet at each end longer than 

 the flirouds, and have an eye fpliced in them to the fize of 

 the maft-head. 



The fhrouds, when cut to their length, are flrctehed for 

 worming by the windlafs and tackle, and then wormed with 

 double fpun-yarn one-fourth the length from the centre of 

 the eye on each fide : but the fore leg of the foremolt pair 

 is wormed all the whole length. Each length, after being 

 wormed, is hove out, till each pair has acquired, by flrctcli- 

 ing, one and a half the length of the eye ; and fhoiild re- 

 main on that ltretch twenty-four hours, before the fcrvicc 

 is laid on. 



The eyes of all flirouds are parcelled with worn canvas, 

 well tarred, about one fathom and a half on each fide of the 

 middle for large fhips, and proportionably for fmaller ; and 

 then ferved with fpun-yarn one-fourth of their length ; each 



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turn of the ferving is laid very clofe, ..nd ltrained t 

 round, to prevent the water ponetrating. The fore leg of 

 the foremolt pair of Ihrouds is ferved the whole length. 



Swiften, when ftretched, have the length of the fplice 

 fet off on each fide ot the middle, and likewife the length 

 of the eye, or circumference of the malt -head. The latter 

 is parcelled and ferved as above. They are then cut afun- 

 der in the middle, and fpliced to the circumference of the 

 maft-head ; then got on the (tretch, and ferved over the 

 fplice one-fourth of the length. 



The bights of fhrouds are feized together to the circum 

 ferencc of the malt-heads, 1, 2, (Plate II. figs. 14 and 15.) ; 

 the feizing of the firft fhroud is put on below the bolfter or 

 treille-trees, with feven under and fix riding turns, and a 

 double crofs over all. The feizing of each fhroud is to be 

 laid its breadth below the next, and clear of each other, to 

 prevent chafing. 



Thus far the flirouds are prepared in the houfe : they arc 

 next hoiited over the mall -head. The firft pair leads down 

 on the ilarboard fide forward ; the next pair forward on 

 the larboard fide ; then the fecond pair on the (larboard, 

 and the fecond on the larboard, and fo on, till all are 

 fixed. By this method, the yards are braced to a greater 

 degree of obliquity, when clofe hauled ; which could not 

 be were the foremoll fhrouds lalt fitted on the maft- 

 head. 



Sivifters (which are the after fhrouds) are fwayed next 

 over the malt-head above the fhrouds, aHd are fixed on the 

 (larboard and larboard fides of the fliip, to fupport the 

 malts, and enable them to bear the (train of a heavy prefs 

 of fail ; as 4, 5, 6, Plate III. fig. 1. 



Stays have an eye fpliced in one end, 1, (Plate II. fig. 16.) 

 fufficiently to receive itfelf through. Each ltay is got on 

 the ltretch, and hove well out, as the flirouds were ; then 

 wormed with fpun-yarn one-third the length ; and then 

 hove out, till the middle ltrand or heart is made to break 

 in feveral places. The moufe, 2, [Plate II. fig. 16.) made 

 with fpun-yarn, &c. in the fhape of a pear, is then raifed 

 on the flay, at one-third of its length, or by fome at two 

 fides of the maft-head, added to twice the length of the 

 treflle-trces from the eye to the moufe. The warp of the 

 moufe to be marline, and the pointing continued the cir- 

 cumference of the ltay for the length ot the tail. The col- 

 lar, 3, the eye, 1, and one fathom below the moufe, 2, to 

 be parcelled with worn canvas, well tarred, and icrved over 

 with fpun-yarn. [Piatt II. fig. 16.) The Hay is hoiited 

 over the maft-head, and fupports the mart, by extending 

 from its upper end towards the fore part of the (hip, and 

 counteracts the ftrain of the fhrouds which lead aft ; and 

 thus is the malt kept in a firm pofition fore, aft, and fide- 

 ways. 



Preventer -fiay is next hoiited over the maft-head, the fame 

 as the former. 



Collars. — Fore-ftay-collars are fitted to the circumference 

 of the bowfprit, and fpliced together at the ends j wormed, 

 parcelled, and ferved the whole length ; then doubled, and 

 a heart feized in the bight. The fplice is to lie on the back 

 of the heart with riuartrr-feizings, a fcore being cut on each 

 fide of the heart, large enough to admit from nine to twelve 

 turns of feizing ; the feizing to be fnaked on the back, t* 

 lie clofely. 



Main-Jlay-collar, 4, (Plate 11. fig. 16.) is made by the 

 rope-maker with an eye in one end : in the houfe it is 

 wormed, parcelled, and ferved round the eye and the whole 

 length. 



Tin imv-ftay, 7, (Plate 111. fig. l.\ and main-day, have 

 a heart turned into the lower end with a throat-lcizing, 5, 



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