t looked like perdition. Then one of unusual interest, owing to the races which the machinery for developing and applying power is we all laughed. It was a most delicious sensation, wip- have taken place between the fastest British yachts and the American yacht Vigilant. The champion be seen. It… … the hoiler is supplied shows the Britannia through rows of pipes and the Vigilant as they THE BRITANNIA AND THE VIGILANT. no larger than 44 inch appeared at the begin- wave ene ee in diameter. These are ning of the race off Cowes, August 4, 1894, on which occasion the Vigilant such success that the…
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