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

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              warpe or towe the Foundered Ship at high-water to ſome place
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              where it may lie a-ground: and by that means upon the Ebbe or
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              Receſſion of the Tide, it will lie much more above water; and then
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              you may ſafely unfaſten it from thoſe five or more Tires of Beames,
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              to which it was at firſt tyed, to hall it to a place of ſafety, as it was
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              our purpoſe to do; and this ſhall ſucceed as well in an ouzie
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              tom, as in a Stony, This though you may take notice of, that if
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              the Cargo of this new Foundred Ship was ſuch, that the things more
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              grave than the water, did not much exceed the leſs grave, it would
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              be eaſie to effect the recovery with two Ships, very much leſs than
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              thoſe which we have ſpoken of above; yet nevertheleſs it will be
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              good prudence to take them rather bigger than leſſer, that ſo they
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              may exceed 200000 pounds in Power, rather than want one only
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              ounce in Act; eſpecially in caſe you would in a deep place at the
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              firſt motion hoiſt it by meer Force ſomewhat above the Surface of
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              the water, for in that point alone it will require incomparably much
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              more force, than in all the other operations.</s>
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              <s>How you are to preceed, in caſe the Ship ſhould be ſunk in a
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              place very deep, ſhall be declared in the ſeaventh Explanation. </s>
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              Figures of this Explanation are theſe two that folllow.</s>
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              The Figure of the two Ships filled with water, to raiſe the Ship that
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              is ſunk
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