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Excerpt from The Relation of Literature to Life
Innumerable were the devices of the build ers to keep their inventions a?oat. Some paid great attention to the form of the hull, others to the kind of cargo and the loading of it, while others - and these seemed the majority trusted more to some new sort of sail, or new fashion of rudder, or new application of pho pelling power. And it was wonderful to see what these new ingenuities did for a time, and.
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