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I chance to' be near the Land, I may hereby be en- 
. abled to gain ,a fafe Harbour. .-. -r. 
3. By this Invention thie wild Steerage which is 
too frequently made in fome Ships, will be pre- 
vented, which all Mariners mult allow to be of 
Service, efpecially in chafing, or being chafed by an 
Enemy ; as well as in their keepirig the Reckoning 
of the Ship*s Way, ^c. 
I might here touch on other Advantages arifing 
from this Projed:, which I omit at prelent, fince as 
I am about preparing fbme fmall Models to lliew 
the Nature of this Contrivance, they will fully ap- 
pear therefrom : And if what I offtr fliould not be 
lb pradicable in large Ships, as it were to be 
wiflied, I yet hope Ibme happy Genius will, in 
Time, fo far improve on what I lhall hint, as to 
make the fame ferviceable to my Country. 
When I confider, that to Navigation Great BrU 
tarn owes its Riches and Strength, it certainly 
ought to have the Preference to all other Arts and 
Sciences ; and therefore any Improvement therein 
furely cannot fail of meeting with Regard ; more 
efpecially where fiich defirable Ends are propofed, 
as a Method to prevent Ships being wreck’d on Lee- 
Shores, as^lfb a Means to facilitate the Efcape of 
them, when too powerfully attacked by an Ene- 
my ; or leading them to Vidory, where they have 
any Profped of it, As hereby Honour may 
accrue to the Nation, and the Lives and Fortunes of 
feveral People may be laved, I only defire publick 
Experiments may be made of thefe my Machines, on 
the Proof of which I am willing to Hand or fall. 
H, T). S, 
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