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fhip’s fide, and from it to the uprights in the middle, 
were placed two rows of diagonal fhores, fix inches 
fquare, the heels of which were fecurely wedged again ft 
the fore and aft piece or ribband, which afforded 
fufficient fupport to the temporary deck without 
any other fhores. Two bulkheads or partitions were 
built, as far as the fore- m aft forward, and mizen maft 
aft, well planked, fhored, and caulked, to refift the wa- 
ter, As decks laid in this manner, and in fo much hurrv 
as the time of low water requires, will of confequence 
leak in Tome degree, and as that leakage, walhing from 
fide to fide, will caufe the fhip to lay along, I fixed a two- 
inch deal, twelve inches broad, edgeways, all fore and' aft 
at the middle line, and wellcaulked it, to ftophalf the wa- 
ter on the weather or upper fide, when the fhip would 
incline either way, which not only made her ftiffer un- 
der fail, but facilitated the pumping out the water made 
by leaks in the deck. 
This deck was fixty-three feet long and twenty-three 
feet broad, and was laid at five feet five inches above the 
bottom of the keel, or four feet above the top of the floor 
timbers, and fwam the fhip at twelve feet five inches 
water, refitting two hundred and fixteen tons, and con- 
taining under it one hundred and twenty-four tons of wa- 
ter, which preffing againft the under fide of the temporary 
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