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that what is here advanced, if rightly conducted, 
^nnot fail of proving highly advantageous to 
Trade and ’Navigation. • 
January ijd, 
Henry de Saumare;^. 
tostscritt. 
In a former Difcourfe on this Invention, and 
Which appears in the xxxiii^ Volume of the Thilo- 
fifhtcal Tranfalitons, I hinted that I was upon 
making a further Improvement in Navigation, where- 
by I propofed to make a Ship work far better to 
Windward, than it is poffibJe for the moll Wea- 
r T ^ preient ; as allb to make them 
tack and ware in much lefs Room than is general- 
ly done on inch Occafions. The Advantages ari- 
ing rom Juch a Projedion, if it proves pradlica- 
ble, mufl; be conliderable ; for 
• «,in' a Lee-Shore 
Will hereby be enabled to weather the Point Ihe 
may want, and not be forced, in ftormy Weather 
to anchor in the very Breach of the Shore, and 
even in the Jaws of Deftruftion. Of this we have 
bad too many melancholly Inftances, where feveral 
Tives and -Fortunes have been loft: Difafters nf 
which kind, it is humbly conceived, may, in a 
great Meafure, be prevented by this Invention. 
Hence we need not fear to get the Weather- 
Enemy ; for by plying to Windward ' 
much fafter than he can, and by tacking and warino in 
much lefs Compals, I can either leave him, or conti- 
nue to engage him, as fliall appear moft convenient : 
At ieaft I can fo fpend the Day, as to be able to fe- 
cure my felf under the Covert of the Night ; or if 
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