Salusbury, Thomas, Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I), 1667

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              *
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              The Author
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              lieved (as he
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              clareth in the
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              piſtle to the
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              ing Suppliment of
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              this his
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              on)
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              that the
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              riners converſant in theſe affairs, had many wayes to imbreech a Veſſel uuder water; and for that reaſon he
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              over paſſeth it here, and is very curſive upon the ſame Point, in the ſecond Book, but giveth a generall Rule
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              for it in the ſaid Suppliment: to which the Reader is referred for fuller Satisfaction.
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              <s>And this is the Rule that you muſt obſerve; If the Ship be newly
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              ſunk, you muſt immediately, if it be poſſible, find two other Ships,
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              that be each of them rather of greater bulk than the foundered Ship
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              than leſs: and when you have found theſe two Ships, you muſt
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              free them of all the inward and outward lading, and rigging,
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              cially of thoſe things which are by nature more grave than the water,
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              as are the Guns, the Shot, and any kind of Ballaſt, which is
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              poſed to be in the Hold, and of other things of impediment; and
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              when theſe Ships are thus cleared, you muſt ſtop all the Loop-holes,
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              Cat-holes, Skuppers and Hauſes, which you ſhall finde between or
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              above Decks, graving and calking them ſo with Okum, and paying
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              them with Pitch, that the water can neither get in nor out thereat.
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              <s>And next you muſt join or grapple theſe two Ships together with five
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              or more Tires or Orders of thick and ſtrong Beames tripplicated;
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              that is, that each of the ſaid Orders conſiſt of three Beams, joyned
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              lengthways; and that each of the three Beams be ſomewhat longer
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              than the bredth of the Deck or Hull of each Ship; and that theybe
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              thick and ſtrong, as being to ſupport the Foundered Ship, as you
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              ſhall ſee it made to appear preſently: and couple the ſaid Ships
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              gether, at ſuch a diſtance from each other, that you give berth, or
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              leave room enough betwixt for the foundered Ship to play; and
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              you muſt make this couppling in ſuch ſort, that the length or ſide
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              of the one Ship, look towards the length or ſide of the other; and
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              albeit this conjunction or grappling may be made with many Orders
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              or Tires of thoſe Bcams tripplicated lengthways, as was ſaid above, </s>
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              The Figurall repreſentation of the two empty Ships, conjoyned with
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              five Orders of Beams, and towed juſt over the place where the
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              Foundered Ship is.
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              yet that we may not cauſe confuſion in the Figure, we would have
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              this colligation to be made only of five Rows, as appeareth in the </s>
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