. Treatise on marine and naval architecture, or, Theory and practice blended in ship building. Illustrated with more than 50 engravings . MARINE AND NAVAL ARCHITECTURE. 113 independent of any expression fromothers. We have said, in a formerchapter, that shape in ships is as dis-tinctly traceable to the builder as linea-ments are in the human face ; hencethe importance of looking well to thismatter, before we are trammeled witha shape from which we cannot depart,even though we may be convinced oferror. The diagram, No. 1, of Fig. 16, re-ferred to, exhibits the greatest trans-verse section of a
. Treatise on marine and naval architecture, or, Theory and practice blended in ship building. Illustrated with more than 50 engravings . MARINE AND NAVAL ARCHITECTURE. 113 independent of any expression fromothers. We have said, in a formerchapter, that shape in ships is as dis-tinctly traceable to the builder as linea-ments are in the human face ; hencethe importance of looking well to thismatter, before we are trammeled witha shape from which we cannot depart,even though we may be convinced oferror. The diagram, No. 1, of Fig. 16, re-ferred to, exhibits the greatest trans-verse section of a vessel. The bound-ary lines are, the middle line, the shapeof the frame, and a horizontal linemeeting the two former at the lowerside of the plank-sheer ; the load-line isa proportionate distance, and the linesbelow the load-line are so arrangedthat the direction of the forces arevery nearly represented ; the lines run-ning from the middle line, and pointingdownward, are an approximation towhat are recognized as diagonal lines,and show nearly in the direction of theplank on the bottom ; but they repre-sent something on the model of
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