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detail. I was certainly repaid for taking this 

 trouble. She is a sixty-gun ship, carrying 

 thirty-two pounders on her main and upper 

 decks ; and is of great beam^ lengthy and thick- 

 ness. But what I did not like about her appear- 

 ance was the great space between two of her 

 masts, which does not improve her beauty when 

 viewed from another vessel. Possibly this may 

 be no defect of construction in a seaman^s eye. 

 The Americans are much fonder of brass than 

 we are. There is a great deal of ornamental 

 work of this sort, about the Brandywine, which 

 must require many hands every day to polish it. 

 To my surprise, between every two guns stood 

 a brass spitting-pan, from which I conclude 

 Yankee freedom is unconstitutionally re- 

 strained from the totality of the deck. The 

 cabins of this vessel, and of most American 

 ships, are made of maple wood, inlaid with 



