Historic Groton : comprising historic and descriptive sketches pertaining to Groton Heights, Center Groton, Poquonnoc Bridge, Noank, Mystic, and Old Mystic, Conn. . s in |>lauk^ I wlien {\w\ lhe\ are uuperfeeti. .n. riie\ must 1, s is ..ne ..f the most inferestinu trusty, perfect in their HIS 10 KIC GR O 7 ON 63 iiiess. Xuw cuiiK- tlif painters and llie gen- Down arc great knees cf 8 and <)cral finishing-. The boats are then thoroughly inches in thickness carelnlly marked in thewatered to test or find any leak. This may shape desired. These are placed on the
Historic Groton : comprising historic and descriptive sketches pertaining to Groton Heights, Center Groton, Poquonnoc Bridge, Noank, Mystic, and Old Mystic, Conn. . s in |>lauk^ I wlien {\w\ lhe\ are uuperfeeti. .n. riie\ must 1, s is ..ne ..f the most inferestinu trusty, perfect in their HIS 10 KIC GR O 7 ON 63 iiiess. Xuw cuiiK- tlif painters and llie gen- Down arc great knees cf 8 and <)cral finishing-. The boats are then thoroughly inches in thickness carelnlly marked in thewatered to test or find any leak. This may shape desired. These are placed on the tahlelast three or four hours, going up one side, and a saw so small and slender it huiks inc(in-then the other. gruons is puiscd almve the depth of clumsyIt is n<iw time to prepare to launch hy put- wnod Inilk under it, Imt a hand regulates theting ways under, wdnich are ?-lightly inclined force, and hand;, guide the clumsy pieceplanes slushed with tallow nnxcd with oil, on with its marks exactly to the saw, and withwhich the vessel slides to her future element. another little shrill shout the saw jdoughs its s ])lant for sexeral suci a knee is tnrne(. SIMMKK HKSIIIKXCK ol eraged a vessel constructed and launched e\er;ten days. The gross income in panic year wa$741,000. While we are waiting for the tide In tnuclthe highwater mark, just tin(lilTerent hmiso where the varidus parts an]iepared and luade reads fur llieir rcspectixiphicev. Here i> the s;iwmill where the immen>e logs are sent nn the great carriage til. the belt >wing^ rmmd and .me schniM I smooth, trenail is the reMill whichgoes to fasten ihal |)lanking. ( )nc man inruN1800 of these trenails a da\ . .^1 > the nnmerons 64 HISTORIC GROTON \cssels arc slrappcl and the .ii
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