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The encyclopaedia of sport (1897)

Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Charles Howard, Earl of, 1833-1898, Peek, Hedley, Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918 · London : Lawrence and Bullen · leaf 627

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useless in making full-bottomed boats go anyfaster, and it was abandoned. The object of the sail-maker is to obtain amaterial possessing great strength, little elasticity,uniformity of stretch, close texture, and a smoothsurface, from which the wind frees itself withthe least possible friction.…

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