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m a very small compass. For use they are blown up, and fas- 

 tened to a prepared staging. The cut represents one which 

 crossed the Atlantic in 1867, arriving at Southampton July 25, 

 having started from New York forty- three days before. She was 

 rigged with two masts secured to the staging, and her crew 

 oonsisted of three men, John "Wilkes, George Miller and Jerry 

 Mallene. A bellows to fill the cylinders, should they require 

 it, was an important item in her cargo. The crew kept alter - 



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nate watch, sleeping, by turns, in a tent spread on the staging. 

 Their supply of water they carried in casks. The experiment 

 of crossing the Atlantic was made to show the safety of a raft 

 thus constructed. 



For attaining speed, and thus diminishing the tedium and 

 the risk of an Atlantic voyage, Mr. Wynans, of Baltimore, 

 has invented a cigar-shaped boat, as it is called, though it is 

 pointed at both ends. Various causes have hitherto prevented 

 his final experiment with his boat, but he hopes to be able to 



