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— the buckets— the very handle of the pump 

 — all were painted — ali pi'" '-^^^ me unilorm. 

 of black and yellow. Not an iron nng, d ;iolt, 

 nor a nail was negleded — not even ch cannon 

 balls efcaped — and, that nothing Ih^ai ' be 

 omitted, the inner furface of the water buckets, 

 regardlefs of health, were dreffed with their 

 poifonous coating. Never was fyftem more 

 univerfally obfei'ved ; nor idle excefs ren- 

 dered more confpicuous. Not an inch, nor an 

 atom, but appeared in Lord ShefReld's livery ; 

 black and yellow prevailed from the higheft 

 point of the mails, down to the very water's 

 edge. Nothing can conv,; / to you a flrooger 

 idea of the fine fteady failing, in a trade w ind, 

 than to know that the outer part of the ihip 

 is painted at fea, by men hanging in ropes, at 

 her fides, while flie is proceeding with full 

 fails, on her paflage. 



The fallors have another, and yet fl:ronger 

 pride, which refpeds the failing of their vef- 

 fel : like every man's horfe,- — every failor's 

 fliip is the heft in the worlds — ^ every captain 

 commands the qulckeft failing veflel of the 

 fleet ; and he would ceafe to merit the honor 



