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<p> forget which the staff is set down in the middle of the broad part, thus <!-- drawing of post in box --><lb/> instead of the side, as in common rudders thus <!-- drawing of rudder -->. This was for a reason which <lb/> | <p> forget which the staff is set down in the middle of the broad part, thus <!-- drawing of post in box --><lb/> instead of the side, as in common rudders thus <!-- small drawing of rudder -->. This was for a reason which <lb/> sea-men will readily apprehend, and which I apprehended at the time<lb/> but have since forgotten.</p> | ||
<p> The great principle upon which the advantage expected from this construction<lb/>in point of swiftness depends is, that according to a maxim <add> my brother says</add> received by <lb/> all shipbuilders theoretical as well as practicable, a vessel meets with no<lb/>sensible retardment from its length. But by increasing the length you <lb/>may increase indefinitely the number of rowers and consequently the moving<lb/> force: while the increase of length, as far as the above maxim holds<lb/>good, makes no sensible addition to the resistance. What sets limits to the <lb/> length of all plans of construction hitherto known in the <del> capacity of the</del> vessel<lb/> <del>for</del> <add> capacity of</add> hold <gap/> without falling to pieces by its own weight <add> which is called <hi rend="underline">hogging</hi> by sea-men</add>. My <lb/> Brother does not know that any body before him ever put two rows of <lb/> rowers close together on the same side. They row without interfering with one<lb/> another in the least.</p> | |||
<p> Of the particulars contained in the above description scarce any were furnished <lb/>me by my Brother. His attention was sufficiently taken up partly by <lb/>an ague, partly by the conducting of these <del>and</del> unexampled and untried vessels, <lb/> with a crew perfectly raw and unexercised, through a navigation rendered as <lb/> dangerous by sunken <del><gap/></del> or projecting stumps, as a sea-navigation by <lb/> sunken rocks. When I embarked he had had his ague for about 10 days: and <lb/> he was so weakened by it as to be unable to stand, and sometimes <del>even</del> to speak, <lb/> even when the fit was not on him: but in the course of the time I <sic>staid</sic> with <lb/> him on board, which was 2 days and 2 nights (for he was kept waiting one day<lb/> for the men's provisions) I had the satisfaction of seeing him considerably strengthened,<lb/> and I hope the ague gone. When he was incapable of business, which was <lb/> the case for several days every thing was either at a stand or going wrong: nobody capable<lb/> of supplying his place, in a business so new and so much his own. Fear of being</p> | |||
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forget which the staff is set down in the middle of the broad part, thus
instead of the side, as in common rudders thus . This was for a reason which
sea-men will readily apprehend, and which I apprehended at the time
but have since forgotten.
The great principle upon which the advantage expected from this construction
in point of swiftness depends is, that according to a maxim my brother says received by
all shipbuilders theoretical as well as practicable, a vessel meets with no
sensible retardment from its length. But by increasing the length you
may increase indefinitely the number of rowers and consequently the moving
force: while the increase of length, as far as the above maxim holds
good, makes no sensible addition to the resistance. What sets limits to the
length of all plans of construction hitherto known in the capacity of the vessel
for capacity of hold without falling to pieces by its own weight which is called hogging by sea-men. My
Brother does not know that any body before him ever put two rows of
rowers close together on the same side. They row without interfering with one
another in the least.
Of the particulars contained in the above description scarce any were furnished
me by my Brother. His attention was sufficiently taken up partly by
an ague, partly by the conducting of these and unexampled and untried vessels,
with a crew perfectly raw and unexercised, through a navigation rendered as
dangerous by sunken or projecting stumps, as a sea-navigation by
sunken rocks. When I embarked he had had his ague for about 10 days: and
he was so weakened by it as to be unable to stand, and sometimes even to speak,
even when the fit was not on him: but in the course of the time I staid with
him on board, which was 2 days and 2 nights (for he was kept waiting one day
for the men's provisions) I had the satisfaction of seeing him considerably strengthened,
and I hope the ague gone. When he was incapable of business, which was
the case for several days every thing was either at a stand or going wrong: nobody capable
of supplying his place, in a business so new and so much his own. Fear of being
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Jeremy Bentham |
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