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that is not fixed the end of the Bar opposite to that which is fixed, to
play up and down according to the motion of the Link Boat into which
it is inserted by means of the Horizontal Groove: the Hinge is just
perceived as you look down between the two Links (Boats) and the Diameter
of it forms I think all the Interval which there is in general between them,
but they are capable upon occasion of being let out to I don't know what
distance, I believe a foot or more, all the other Links are connected in the
same manner. —

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
Sleeps without changing its situation: there is likewise a four Oared Boat not
much unlike our Common Wheries. As for the Great Barge there had been
no Opportunity of trying its Swiftness, not can there be till it goes fairly
into the Duieper; the Soje is so full of short turnings and Shoals and
Humps of Branches of Trees projecting some above the Water others a little
way below the surfaces, the Inundation not being yet over nor the natural
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 such an 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 Construction of the Barge was too far advanced to admit
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 three 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 end of each rope is fixed in one Link and the other

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Date_1	1787-05-03	Marginal Summary Numbering
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Folio number	353	Info in main headings field
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