New Castle, historic and picturesque . ndalov:s, Avhich creep along the shoresand in and out among the islands. They have one short, stumpymast, and a very long yard, rigged with a lateen sail. The yardis held to the mast bv a chain hooked into an iron band around 56 X/SW CASTLE the Yard, and rove liirough a slieave-hole in the mast-head; thusenabling it to swing horizontally, when passing under bridges, orAvhen at anchor. The gundalow is at its best for a picture whenlying on some tide-deserteil beach, its yard on a line with thedeck, and tlie sail loosely brailed up. It will be noticed in th
New Castle, historic and picturesque . ndalov:s, Avhich creep along the shoresand in and out among the islands. They have one short, stumpymast, and a very long yard, rigged with a lateen sail. The yardis held to the mast bv a chain hooked into an iron band around 56 X/SW CASTLE the Yard, and rove liirough a slieave-hole in the mast-head; thusenabling it to swing horizontally, when passing under bridges, orAvhen at anchor. The gundalow is at its best for a picture whenlying on some tide-deserteil beach, its yard on a line with thedeck, and tlie sail loosely brailed up. It will be noticed in theOnward, (for which, as well the description, I am indebtedto Capt. ^y. H. Tread well) that the yard is weighted at the for-ward end, ill order, wlien lowering, to l)alance the weight of thesail, which is mainly aft of the mast. I have of late years seenso many illustrations and paintings of the gundalow of thePiscataqua, and always incorrect, that I determined in this bookto give one page to a realistic likeness. Those who want their. Tl6CATAQU\ GuNOAtOW tj Caft. Vtl-LTjiEiyJWEU. gundalow with sauce can turn to ])age flfty-eight. Their lading i< brick, sand or gravel, stone, coal or any rough cargo,carried on deck. The gundalow is the humble sister of the sloopon one side, and first, l)ut aristocratic, cousin to the skow on theother; a craft indigenous here, and adapted to our muchbebridged waters. Its name and rig probably came from Italy,though the one has been corrupted and the other have been in use on the river for many genera-tions, and once were quite elegant in their appointments, carry-ing passengers as well as freight. Those Avere the days whenGov. James Sullivan, of Massachusetts, served his apprentice-ship on one of them, and learned to use the helm and the have found an allusion to gundalows as far back as 1696; HISTOBIC AND PICTUBESQUE 57 and au important one in 1726 ; which gives, as I believe, tlie nearlycorrect
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