XXXIV.] 
YELLOW PLNE. 
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No mast, yard, or bowsprit to have large or sudden bites, or large 
knots, or any defects that may render them unfit to serve for the use for 
which they are required. 
The diameter and length of the Yellow Pine masts, yards, and bow¬ 
sprits to be in the following proportion :— 
Mast pieces, 25 inches and upwards diameter, the length to be at least 
three times the diameter considered as feet; and under 25 inches to be 
three times the diameter considered as feet, with 9 feet added. 
i.e. 25x3 = 75 feet. | 24x 3 + 9 = 81 feet. | 20x 3 + 9 = 69 feet. 
Yellow Pine masts. —Pleads, or upper part 
Plounds, or lower part... 
2nd [■ Quarter .. 
Heel 
as partners 
N.B.—Both partners are the bigness of the mast. Length of the head, 
4^ inches to every yard the mast is long; from the heel to the lower- 
partners, one-sixth of the mast; ditto, upper partners, five-eighteenths. 
The four quarters are divided between the upper partners and upper 
part of the hounds. 
Yard pieces, the length to be at least 4 feet 3 inches for every inch of 
diameter in the slings. 
i.e. 24 x 4‘25 = 102 feet. | 20 x 4125 = 85 feet. 
4 0 
Yards, 1st Quarter 
2nd ,, 
of the slings. 
T 
1 
Yard arms 
Bowsprit pieces, the length to be 2 feet for every inch of diameter at the 
bed, with 1 foot added. 
20 x 2 + 1 = 41 feet. 
i.e. 24 x 2 + 1 = 49 feet. 
End 
3 rd \ 
2nd v Quarter 
1st \ 
Heel 
+ '1 
41 
For setting off the lengths. 
From the heel to the lower end of the bed, one-seventh of the bowsprit y 
to the upper end of the bed, three-eighths of the bowsprit. 
1. Quality .—All the goods to be supplied under this contract to be of 
the best quality, fresh cut, good, sound, merchantable, and well-conditioned. 
