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down and makes faft to the upper reef-earing cringle. 

 The leading-part comes in upon deck, through a leading- 

 block lafhed to a timber-head or eye -bolt. The fail is then 

 run up to the yard, where the men go and pafs the 



Earings : one end of the earing fplices to the head-cringle 

 with a long-eye ; the other end paffes over the yard-arm, 

 without the rigging, and through the cringle alternately, 

 two or three times, and likewife paffes round the yard, 

 within the rigging, and through the cringle, till the caring 

 is expended, making faft the end with two half-hitches. 

 The outer turns are to ftretch the head of the fail tight 

 along the yard, and the inner turns to draw it clofe up. 



Reef -tarings, when ufed, the fame. 



Rope-bands, which fallen the head of the fail along the 

 yard, arc braided cordage, with an eye in one end, and one 

 leg longer than the other. The eye of the long leg is put 

 over the fhort leg, and the eye of the fhort leg is thruft 

 through the eye-let hole at the aftfide of the fail, and paffes 

 through the eye of the fhort leg ; and io of the relt. The 

 rope-bands, being previoufly reeved through the head of the 

 fail, fallen to the yard as follows. The long leg comes over 

 the yard from the forefide, with a round turn between the 

 head of the fail ; the fhort leg comes up the aftlide, and 

 makes faft with a reef-knot upon the yard. The fail is 

 then let fall to fee it is clearly bent. 



Points are ufually put in the fail at the fail-loft. See 

 S.ML-Maiing. 



Gqjhets are braided cordage, which go round the yard with 

 arunniiig-eye.two on eachquarter, and one at each yard-arm : 

 the bunt-gafket in the middle has two legs, and lafhes to 

 the yard ou each fide of the quarter-blocks. Thefe are 

 ufed when the fail is furled, to bind it firmly up to the 

 yard, by paffing the gafket fix or feven times round the 

 yard and fail, each turn a certain diftance apart, or fpirally, 

 making faft the end with two half-hitches. 



Clue-garnets, 24, {Plate IV. Jig. 2.) reeve through their 

 block upon the yard on each fide, then through the block 

 at the clue of the fail. The ftanding-part is carried up, 

 and made faft round the yard by its block with a timber- 

 hitch, and the end flopped. The leading-part comes down 

 upon deck, and reeves through its (heave-hole in the topfail- 

 fheet-bitts, and there belays. 



Bowlines, 25, (Plate IV. Jig. 2.) reeve through a fingle 

 block lamed round the collar of the fore-ftay, or the fore- 

 preventer-ftay on the bowfprit, and the outer part reeves 

 on the bowline-bridle, with a thimble fpliced in the end, and 

 the bridle clinches to the cringle on the leech of the fail. 

 The leading-part comes in upon the forecaftle, and belays 

 to the fore-topfail-fheet-bitts. 



Leech-lines, 26, (Plate IV. Jig. 2.) reeve through the 

 fpritfail-brace-block, under the top, then through the 

 block upon the yard, and the ftanding-part makes faft with 

 a clinch to the upper bowline-bridle ; the leading-part then 

 reeves through a double block, at the aft-part of the top, 

 and comes down upon the forecaftle. 



Bunt-lines, 27, (Plate IV. Jig. 2.) reeve througli the 

 leg and fall-block, and through a double block at the 

 aft-part of the top, and through the blocks upon the yard, 

 and had down the fore-fide of the fail, and clinch to the 

 cringles in the foot. The fall reeves through the leg block ; 

 the ftanding-part makes faft to an eye-bolt near the mail, 

 and the leading-part through a live-block under the crofs- 

 picce of the breaft-bitts. 



Slab-lines, 28, (Plate IV. fig. 2.) reevo through a fin ill 

 block ladled to the ftrap of the quarter-block, and the 

 ftanding-part clinches with two legs to the middle bunt- 



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line cringles. The leading-part leads to the topfail-fheet- 

 bitts, and belays to the crofs-piece. 



Spi/ling-lines, 29, (Plate IV. Jig. 2.) reeve through blocks 

 lafhed on each fide of the quarter-blocks of the lower yards, 

 then lead down before the fail, return upwards under the 

 foot of the fail, and make faft round the yard with a 

 timber-hitch. 



Life-lines are fometimes ufed for the prefervation of the 

 feamen. They are generally of worn hawfer-laid rope, and 

 are made faft with the two half-hitches round the ftrap of 

 the lift-block, and jeer or tye-block, in the middle of the 

 yard. 



R'gg ! "g a "d Bending the Main-Courfe, I, Plate IV. Jig. 2. 



This fail is hoifted on board, and laid athwart, ready for 

 bending, as the fore-courfe. Sheet-blocks, tacks, and 

 clue-garnet-blocks, are fitted in the clues as the fore- 

 courfe. 



Tacks, fingle, 31, ( Plate IV. Jig. 2.) reeve through the 

 fheave-hole in the cheftree, on each fide, and lead on board 

 through a fheave-hole in the fide, and belay round a range- 

 cleat in the waift. 



Tacks, double, 32, (Plate IV. Jig. 2.) The ftanding- 

 part clinches to an eye-bolt before the cheftree, and the 

 leading-part reeves through a fingle block lafhed to the clue 

 of the fail; then leads in upon deck, through the cheftree 

 and fheave-hole in the fide, and belays as the above. 



Sheets, 33, (Plate IV. Jig. 2.) reeve through the fheet- 

 block at the clues. The ftanding-part is feized to an eye- 

 bolt with a thimble on the quarters ; the leading-part comes 

 on board through a fheave-hole in the fide, and belays to a 

 range-cleat in the waift. The prefent cultom is for the 

 leading-part of the fheets to reeve through a block lafhed to 

 the eye of an iron flay, projefting from the fide, called a 

 fpider, and comes in upon deck through a port that has a 

 roller fitted vertically at its aftfide. 



Tard-ropes and bending, as the fore-courfe. 



Earings, rope-bands, points, gajkets, and clue-garnets; as the 

 fore-courfe. 



Bow-lines, 34, (Plate IV. Jig. 2.) reeve through a double 

 block, lafhed round the lore-maft five feet above the fore- 

 caftle, and the outer part reeves upon the long leg with a 

 thimble. The lower bridle is the longeft, and clinches to 

 the lower cringle on the fail. In the other end is fpliced a 

 thimble, through which reeves the upper leg, that clinches 

 to the upper cringle. The ftarboard bow-line belays on the 

 larboard, and the larboard bow-line leads over and belays on 

 the ftarboard fide. Four feet from the bridle on each bow- 

 line is fpliced a thimble, and pointed over, called a lizard, 

 to which is hooked a bowline tackle that makes faft to the 

 bitts, and is bowfed upon until the bow-line can be mad'*- 

 faft to the bitts. 



Leech-lines, 3c, ( Plate IV . Jig. 2.) reeve through the 

 block upon the yard, and the miter end makes faft with a 

 clinch to the upper bow-line bridle. The leading-part 

 reeves through a double Mock at the fore part ot the top, 

 and another at the aft part of the top. A fingle block it 

 turned into the lower end, and a whip-fall reeved through it. 

 The ftanding-part makes faft to an eye-bolt in the deck ; 

 and tlie leading-part reeves through a block under the crufs- 

 piece of the bitts, near the mafl. 



Bunt-lines, 36, reeve as the fore-courfe, and lead forward 

 upon the forecaftle. 



Slab-lines, $"],fpilling.Hncs, 38, and life-lines, 39, (Plate IV. 

 Jig. 2.) as the fore-courle. 



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