. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. Academy was erected in the arsenal, butwas not completely formed until 1745, in the reign of GeorgeII. It would seem that the same system might be advan-tageously carried out in this country, so far as the corps ofengineers and artillery are concerned, with the benefit of com-bining practical with theoretical instruction upon those pointswhere there exists an identity of interest in the military andnaval branches of the service. The area of the great British dockyard is about the same asthat of the Charlestown yard, but in depth of water in frontthe
. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. Academy was erected in the arsenal, butwas not completely formed until 1745, in the reign of GeorgeII. It would seem that the same system might be advan-tageously carried out in this country, so far as the corps ofengineers and artillery are concerned, with the benefit of com-bining practical with theoretical instruction upon those pointswhere there exists an identity of interest in the military andnaval branches of the service. The area of the great British dockyard is about the same asthat of the Charlestown yard, but in depth of water in frontthe latter has greatly the advantage, the Thames being so shal-low at Woolwich that large ships are now chiefly constructed atthe other naval ports. We may here mention that Woolwichis the most ancient arsenal in Great Britain, men-of-war havingbeen built there as early as the reign of Henry VIII., when theHarry Grace de Dieu was constructed in 1512. The Eoyal * South Corner of State and Washington Streets. AN HOUR IN THE GOVERNMENT DOCKYARD,. THE GREAT HARRY. George, iu which Kempeiifelt went down at Spithead, and theI^Telson, Trafalgar, and other first-rates, were also built at Wool-wich. When we look around upon the wonderful progress of thesteam marineduring the pastquarter of a cen-tury, and reflectupon its possibil-ities, the predic-tion of the cele-brated Dr. Dio-nysius Lardner,that steam couldnever be profit-ably employedin ocean naviga-tion, seems incredible. Thirty years ago thi<5 was demonstratedby the Doctor w^ith facts and figures, models and diagrams. In the summer of 1781 the port of Boston was almost sealedby the constant presence of British cruisers in the bay, who tookmany valuable prizes and brought several mercantile houses tothe verge of ruin. The merchants accordingly besought Ad-miral Le Compte de Barras to send some of his frigates fromNewport round to Boston ; but the Count replied that the effortsalready made to induce his men to desert and engage on b
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