SHIP BUILDING. 
rail; set off from its aft side 13 feet, the 
length of this rail on the quarter. Then 
draw in the lower finishing, which should 
be as light and airy as possible : and first 
set down 10 inches below the rail last 
drawn, and draw a line parallel thereto, and 
another also 4 inches below it, which is the 
thickness of the stool. Draw a line paral- 
lel to the rake of the quarter-piece, at 7 
feet 11 inches, set oif square before it, and 
this will give the rake of the quarter in the 
middle of the lower galleiy, and likewise 
the middle of the lower finishing. ' Set down 
13 inches below the stool, and in the direc- 
tion on the line last drawn ; then draw a 
handsome serpentine line from the under' 
side of the lower counter-rail at the side, 
through the spot last set offj continuing it 
upwards nearly to the fore end Of the lower 
stool rail, the lower finishing will be com- 
pleted ; and then draw a curve 4 inches 
abaft, and parallel to the lower counter at 
the side, and the stern will be finished be- 
low the lower gallery rim. 
Then set up the qft side of the quarter- 
piece, and with the rake from the upper 
edge of the lower gallery rim, 5 feet, and 
draw a line along the quarter parallel to the 
sheer, or lower gallery rim, and another 
line in the same direction 8 inches above it, 
and its length, 16 feet 9 inches, from the 
aft side of the quarter piece, and that will 
represent the middle stool rail, and a conti- 
nuation of the foot-space rail from aft round 
the quarters. Hitherto the quarter-piece 
has been considered as one length, from the 
upper part to the lower gallery rim ; but as 
that would make it very heavy, and of an 
unnecessary length, let its heel, or lower 
end, terminate on the middle stool. 
Now set forward the siding of the quar- 
ter-piece, which is 16 inches, on a square, 
and draw a line to that siding parallel to the 
aft-side, which represents the fore side of 
tlie quarter piece ; continue down the fore- 
side line fi'om the under side of the middle 
stool rail to the upper side of the lower rim 
rail. Then set up the fore side of the quar- 
ter-piece on the rake, 3 feet 2 inches above 
the upper edge of the lower rim rail, and 
above that inches, and draw two lines 
forward, parallel to the lower rim, to 12 feet 
2 inches before the fore side of the quarter- 
piece, and they will represent the upper 
gallery rim. Then above the upper rim, 
and parallel to it, draw the upper stool rail 
thus : set up the fore side of the quarter- 
piece, and on the rake 3 feet 10 inches 
from tlte upper edge of the upper rim, and 
6^'inches, its depth above it, and draw two 
parallel lines from thence to 12 feet 2 inches 
before the fore side of the quarter-piece. 
Above the upper stool draw the upper 
finishing thus : set up the rake at the fore 
side of the quarter-piece, 12 inches from the 
upper side of the upper stool, and below 
that height 4 inches ; then draw two lines 
from thence, parallel to the upper stool, to 
10 feet 8 inches before the fore side of the 
quarter-piece in the same manner, and from 
the same place as above set 23 inches, and 
2| inches below it, and the pulpit rail, or 
upper rail of the finish, will be found to an- 
swer with the height of the plank sheer; 
then set forward from the fore side of the 
quarter-piece 10 feet 2 inches ; then draw 
between those two rails a line parallel to 
the rake of the quarter, about 3 inches 
within the forwards ; then finish tlie fore 
part of the quarter from the under side of 
the middle rail of the upper finishing to the 
upper side of the upper stool rail at the 
fore part by an ogee curve, and the upper 
fini.shiug wall be complete. 
Now, as the upper rim shortens so much 
more than the lower rim, in order to make 
the upper gallery lighter and smaller, con- 
nect the under side of the upper rim at the 
fore side with the middle stool rail, with an 
airy raking curve ; then the munions and 
gallery lights remain only to be represented 
to complete the quarters. And first draw 
the fore side of the lower gallery by a line 
set olF on the sheer 14 feet 2 inches before, 
and parallel to the fore side of the quarter- 
piece, from the upper side of the lower 
rim to the under side of the middle stool 
rail; then set aft 12 inches on a square from 
this line, and draw another parallel there- 
to, and this will show the foremost munion 
of the lower gallery ; then divide between 
the aft side of this munion and the fore side 
of the quarter-piece, into thrtee lights, hav- 
ing a twelve-inch munion between each 
light, and then the light will be about 2 feet 
11 inches, in the clear, on a square; then 
draw the bottom of each light about 6 
inches above, and parallel to the lower rim, 
for the water-table, and their upper parts 
about 4 inches below the middle stool 
rail. 
The lights of the upper gallery may next 
be drawn in a similar manner. Thus, draw 
the fore part as before, which is llfeet 
7 inches before the fore side of the quarter- 
piece, then set aft 10 inches on a- square 
for the foremost munion and space between 
that and the fore side of the quarter-piece, 
