Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 260
unted forty sail-of-the-line, a dozen frigates and smaller shipsof war, and well-nigh three hundred merchant vessels,riding, as of course we were, to the flood with our headstowards Cowes. You will understand that under the lower-deck wasfitted a cistern, into which the sea-water was receivedand… … 228 A Book of Sea Stories and whicli was secured by a stopcock on the inside.It had been found the morning before that this water-cock, which was about three feet below the water line,was out of order, and must be repaired. The foreman came off from the dockyard, and saidthat it was necessary to…
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