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

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              muſt draw, and bring them by degrees cloſe underneath the Hull of
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              the Veſſel, and then hall or ſtrain hard the end of the Sheat Anchor
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              Cable which was reeved through the Ring; and begirt the Hull
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              of the Ship therewith, as with a Girdle (and to ſtrain it very taught, it
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              would not be amiſſe to make uſe of a Capſtan) and when this
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              Girdle is drawn to its due exactneſſe, to the end it may not ſlip (in
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              the elevation of the Ship) faſten to that part which you hold above
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              Water another Ring of Iron, and paſſe through this Ring one of
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              the Anchor-Cables that is on the ſame ſide as the firſt Ring is on,
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              and almoſt as far from the ſaid Ring, as the ſecond Ring is diſtant
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              from the firſt; whereupon making this ſecond Ring to ſlip along
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              the ſaid Anchor Cable, and then in the Elevation halling the ſame,
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              it ſhall make the ſaid Girdle taught under the ſaid Ship: and that I
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              may be the better underſtood, I have here underneath repreſented
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              the ſaid Girdle pul'd together in an Oval Figure as it is to lye under
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              the Rake of the Ships Hull with fourteen Flooks of fourteen
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              chors under the ſame (except in the part inked E, and in its
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              ſite part G,) well
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              ed; of which Girdle, or
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              Parbunckle, the firſt
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              Ring ſhall be A,
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              through which the
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              Sheat-Anchor Cable
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              paſſeth, namely, the
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              Cable A B, to which
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              Cable was faſtened a
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              ſecond Ring in the
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              point B, through which
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              ſecond Ring, (to the
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              end the Girdle might
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              not ſlio) we will reeve
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              the Cable of the
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              chor C; which Anchor
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              C we ſuppoſe to be
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              ſomewhat farther from
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              the Ring A, than the ſecond Ring B is from the firſt Ring A, and
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              then make the ſaid Ring B to ſlip along the Cable of the ſaid
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              A
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              nchot
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              C, till it come to the point C.
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              A
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              nd thus the Ship ſhall be ſecurely
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              and ſtrongly grappled and begirt.
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              W
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              hich done, proceeding as we
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              directed in the firſt Book of our
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              Indnſtrious Invention,
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              you will
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              cute your purpoſe; That is, when the two or more coupled Ships
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              ſhall be full of water, at the ebbing of the Tide you are to faſten
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              and belay to thoſe Tires of Beams that couple the ſaid Ships, all
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              thoſe fourteen Cables, taking a little more care in tying, and </s>
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