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The Fleet Being Thus More Inclosed Will More Readily Observe The Signals, And With Greater Facility Form Itself Into The Line Of Battle A Circumstance Which Should Be Kept In View In Every Order Of Sailing.

The Head Of A Ship However Has Not Always An Immediate Relation To Her Name, At Least In The British Navy.

Hence A Ship Is Said To Be Tight, When Her Planks Are So Compact And Solid As To Prevent The Entrance Of The Water In Which She Is Immersed: And A Cask Is Called Tight, When The Staves Are So Close That None Of The Liquid Contained Therein Can Issue Through Or Between Them.

The Great Weight Of The Ship May Indeed Prevent Her From Acquiring Her Greatest Velocity; But When She Has Attained It, She Will Advance By Her Own Intrinsic Motion, Without Gaining Any New Degree Of Velocity, Or Lessening What She Has Acquired.

Mental Agitations And Eating Cares Are More Injurious To Health, And Destructive Of Life, Than Is Commonly Imagined, And Could Their Effects Be Collected, Would Make No Inconsiderable Figure In The Bills Of Mortality.