. Monthly nautical magazine, and quarterly review . other purposes than those for which she was intended,we respectfully declined accepting, and have since manifestedno farther interest in the vessel than that which involved thesafety of human life and our mechanical reputation, abidingour time to write her history, and observe her fate. Whether the noble experiment, which this vessel was intendedto make, in reducing the time of ocean transit to Europe, de-served to fall so ingloriously to the ground, is a matter that weleave to the dispassionate consideration of those who were ableto have int
. Monthly nautical magazine, and quarterly review . other purposes than those for which she was intended,we respectfully declined accepting, and have since manifestedno farther interest in the vessel than that which involved thesafety of human life and our mechanical reputation, abidingour time to write her history, and observe her fate. Whether the noble experiment, which this vessel was intendedto make, in reducing the time of ocean transit to Europe, de-served to fall so ingloriously to the ground, is a matter that weleave to the dispassionate consideration of those who were ableto have intercepted the result, and secured an object so rational,so worthy, and within the reach of American enterprise. The engraving, representing this vessel at sea, is in strictconformity with the model and plans, and exhibits the resultof sustaining a vessel by the middle of length rather thanthe ends, which is the main cause of pitching or divergencefrom the horizontal position. We shall give a detailed descrip-tion of the vessel in the next volume. .. t gii ii S3^ i & ¥ § ? g & sa S a, Launches for the Past Month. 461 LAUNCHES FOR THE PAST MONTH IN THE U. S. At Eden, Me., brig Alma, 294 tons. At Round Pond, Bristol, Me., a ship of about 900 tons, called the SparklingSea. In Bath, 15th instant, a ship of 600 tons. At Alna, by Col. Dennett Weymouth, a ship of about 1,100 tons. At Edgecomb, a ship of about 1,200 tons, called the Chicago. At Northport, L. I., a schooner of about 250 tons, called the Blackbird. At New-York, the fine ship Elwood Walter, from the yard of Mr. Thomas Stack,foot of North Second Street. The vessel is 136 feet long on deck, 36J- feet beam,22 feet deep, and about 1,200 tons measurement. She was built for Mr. John and others. The clipper schooner North Point, 350 tons burthen, for Johnson & Lowden,was launched from the yard of Lawrence and Fowlkes, Williamsburgh. At Kennebunk, by Messrs. D. &c S. Ward, a bark named E. B. Horn, of about450 tons. At Bat
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