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Chapter Two
2 inches, in the side at N , broad 9 inches, on the post C the cover broad 61⁄2 inches.
The corners jut up and out. F orward on the gallery frame timber the quarter gallery architrave stands 1 foot from the wale.
Aft against the hackebord, and above the wale 1 foot 51⁄2 inches, the small knee long 2 feet forward, the side thick 4 inches, broad 5 inches. Man y shipwrights, have their ships jut aft, and make it high there, to their satis- faction, and as custom demands, without rule.
The Thorus to the second cover, to which gures are attached with their heads.
The windows aft, they are wide inside 18 inches, the outside 16 inches, because the pillars come
ontothemthere,andthese arebroad3inches,thick3 inches: the pillars stand on a small tuigeltjen [no En- glish equivalent], against water seeping in, thick 1 1⁄2 inches. The sh utters made from sawn deals, also the cross braces. The windows in the cabin wide 1 foot, high 1 foot 3 inches, on th e outside there are frames around the windows, thick 3 to 4 inches, and also as broad.
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the carved
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(87 II 21) 49. About the window in the Gallery in the side. 1. The Window, high 1 foot, 5 inches, wide 16 inches. 2. The lower sill, broad 5 inches, has an angle in the
middle, and is paneled with wainscot 1 inch thick in the side planking.
3. Coming from behind 16 inches.
Figure 2.170. Second cover.
Figure 2.171. Torus.
(top) Plate XXXVIII. (bottom) Plate XXX.
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Figure 2.172.
The quarter gallery.
(left) Plate XXXIX.