JB/540/349/002

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slide out, I can't recollect how, to keep the two links asunder when and at what
part it may be found necessary.

Dimensions of the Sea - Vermicular

F. I.
Breadth — — 14 - 0
Length ) Middle Link — — 34 - 6
of the ) Fore & Aft links 36 - 6

Thickness of ) Bottom 0 - 3
the ) Sides 0 - 2 1/2
Planks ) Deck 0 - 2
at the )

The Timbers
8 inches
square.
The bottom
and sides
connected
by Dove-tailing.

This serves for the present voyage as a sort of tender to the great Imperial
Vermicular, containing some baggage, with Washerwomen & other followers
of the floating camp

Besides the above, there is another experimental vessel upon the same simple
plan but much larger in its dimensions designed only for fresh water
and calculated chiefly for the conveyance of timber. It consists of 5 links,
3 of them hollow, and the other 2 solid composed of timbers packed up together
into a mass of the same breadth as the hollow links, and designed to sink
in the water to the same depth. These solid ones being built at a different
place from the others I did not see them.

Feet
Breadth of all the links 32
Length ( Middle Link 70
of item ( Fore and aft links 51

The hollow links were to hold planks.
I was not in readiness to accompany my
Brother, but was to set off after him from a
place at some distance from hence, as yesterday.

Of the number of oars to these vulgar vessels I can not speak with
any certainty, my attention having been so much taken up with the Imperial
one. The actual number was limited by the number of hands that
could be spared: but double rows could be stow'd the whole length, the habitable
and stowage part being under deck.

I should never have done if I attempted the describing all the subordinate
contrivances: for these vessels differ from all others in almost every
particular that can be imagined. For example instead of one large mast
as in common, 2 slender masts forming a triangle with a thick rope that
stays them. Of the two rudders which the Sea-Vermicular and Timber-Vermicular are each provided with one at the head and the other at the tail in one, I
forget

Identifier: | JB/540/349/002 "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	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
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