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working Cables , and the care to be had in the manner of 
tarring them^ and in the degree of heating the tar for that 
purpofe^&c. 
11. Dehvers the Method of conjoyning the parts of a Ship 
one after another^ ufcdhy Dutch Ship wrights 5 together with 
a reprefentation of a Ship upon the Stoc\f^ and their manner 
of Launching (hips : Adding their way of redreffing a fliip that 
hethonher fide, as well as of laying her on her fide for re^ 
pairing or cleanfing j and intimating alfo^ that amongfl: them 
a fliip 180 or 185 feet long, can conveniently be built up ^ by 
5omen5 in 5 months; and that the charges of building a 
fliip, i65feetlong3 43feetbroad3 and 91 feet high, builtof 
thebefi: timberj amounts to 74152 gilders ; befide^its iron- 
work^ which together with its rigging comes to 19485 gilders 
morej without the warlick equipage : Judging withall; that 
fuchafliip, well built and-kept with carCj may laft 20^30, 40, 
to 50 years 5 mentioning alfo, that he had feen a certain Em 
glijh veffel, of 70 years old 3 and not yet altogether ufe« 
lefs. 
12. Speaks of the meafures and proportions of feveral o- 
ther Sea-veffels, that are of a ftruitureand ufe different from 
thatof the former > fuch as are Flutes, Green-land-veflels for 
Whale-fifliiog, Advice-yachts^ Boyars^^ GalHotSj Fire-fliips^ 
Pinksj BuiTes^Scc, 
Treats of other forts of Veffeli, as Coafters, Yachts^ 
Challoups, Lighters, Boats , Skiffs 5 Double-bottom'd Vef- 
felsj ftiips rifing without being unladen, and fuch as move 
under water, or againit the ftreamj and efpecially of a Veflel 
ufedat AmJle^dafUj whereby in one day may be fetch 'c up 50 
or 60 boats of mud^ performed by the means of a big wheel 
and large fpoonsv In the fame Chapter^ inftrud:ions are given 
concerning the Choice of Ship-Timber, where are to be 
found many neceflary and very ufeful Obfervations and Di- 
redions relating to the purpofe in hand5and a particular com-* 
mendatioo of the Englijh and Irilh Oak for Aiips* To 
all which is added an Eaumeration of all forts of 
Tools and Engios req^uifite for this kind of build- 
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