JB/540/349/001

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Instead of a long-boat the barge has a 24-oared boat of one link, but in
other respects constructed upon the same principles: 6 rows of rowers in length:
4 in breadth: being very shallow (drawing very little water) it goes with great
swiftness, notwithstanding its great breadth: being so broad, it is as steady as
terra firma and will turn round like a top that skips, without changing
its situation. There is likewise a four-oared boat not much unlike like our common wherries.

As to the great barge there had been no opportunity of trying it's swiftness,
nor can there have been till it gets fairly into the Dneiper: the Soje is so full
of short turnings, and st shoals, and stumps and branches of trees projecting
some above the water others a little way below the surface;
the inundation not being yet over, nor the natural breadth bed of the river
ascertainable. One of the turnings I observed was so short as to form much
less than a right angle: my Brother thought not so much as half that such
a angle: it was curious to observe the barge bending itself to that form: had
it been inflexible it could not have passed the turning.

When the conjunction of the barge was too far advanced to admitt of any alteration, my
Brother thought of another mode of junction much more simple than the foregoing,
and consequently, if it succeeds much preferable. He took with him
a vessel of 3 links constructed upon this principle, and which he hopes
will live in the Black Sea. The ends are quite square like those of a
box, and the junction is effected by two ropes crossing one another thus X
one of end of each rope is one link, and the other in another the contiguous link. Beams
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Identifier: | JB/540/349/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 540.
Date_1	1787-05-04	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	540	Main Headings
Folio number	349	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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