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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...of burden. Monkeyboat and cat-boat, German Katzschiff, French chat and chatte, names of small boats, seem to refer to quick, light movement. Light-horse-man, a former name for the boat we now call the gig, alludes to speed, a characteristic still more plainly referred to in the term greyhound which it is said was first applied to the Atlantic Liner Alaska in 1882 on her breaking the record by making the trip across in less than seven days. This recalls yacht, ultimately from Dutch j'aghen, to chase, hunt. Ram, like Latin aries, English battering-ram, refers to the characteristic action of the animal. In contrast with these active vessels, those without sails or steam-power, as lighters, punts and canal-boats, are described by the sailor as dumb craft. H. L. B. Media, Pa. TIN MANUFACTURE. The tin-plate question of to-day recalls the fact that the manufacture of tin was one of the induitries which were forbidden by the British parliament in the latter days of the colonial regime. Anterior to those oppressive measures, the tinman's art had been introduced into this country by the Patersons, from whom MajorGeneral John Paterson (1744-1808) descended. The old rhyme was explicit on this point: "' Oh, what's that lordly dish so rare, That glitters forth in splendor's glare? Tell us, Miss Norton, is it silver t Is it from China, or Brazil, or--' Thus altogether on they ran. Quoth the good dame: 'It's a tin pan, '1 he first made in the colony, The maker Faterson's just by. From Ireland in the last ship o'er; You all can buy, for he'll make more.'" A. ESTOCLET. ANGELS OF THE SPHERES. Michael rules the East; Raphael the West; Gabriel the North; Uriel the South; Metraon guides the Primum Mobile; Ophaniel resides in the starry heavens; Varcan in the sun's sphe...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...of burden. Monkeyboat and cat-boat, German Katzschiff, French chat and chatte, names of small boats, seem to refer to quick, light movement. Light-horse-man, a former name for the boat we now call the gig, alludes to speed, a characteristic still more plainly referred to in the term greyhound which it is said was first applied to the Atlantic Liner Alaska in 1882 on her breaking the record by making the trip across in less than seven days. This recalls yacht, ultimately from Dutch j'aghen, to chase, hunt. Ram, like Latin aries, English battering-ram, refers to the characteristic action of the animal. In contrast with these active vessels, those without sails or steam-power, as lighters, punts and canal-boats, are described by the sailor as dumb craft. H. L. B. Media, Pa. TIN MANUFACTURE. The tin-plate question of to-day recalls the fact that the manufacture of tin was one of the induitries which were forbidden by the British parliament in the latter days of the colonial regime. Anterior to those oppressive measures, the tinman's art had been introduced into this country by the Patersons, from whom MajorGeneral John Paterson (1744-1808) descended. The old rhyme was explicit on this point: "' Oh, what's that lordly dish so rare, That glitters forth in splendor's glare? Tell us, Miss Norton, is it silver t Is it from China, or Brazil, or--' Thus altogether on they ran. Quoth the good dame: 'It's a tin pan, '1 he first made in the colony, The maker Faterson's just by. From Ireland in the last ship o'er; You all can buy, for he'll make more.'" A. ESTOCLET. ANGELS OF THE SPHERES. Michael rules the East; Raphael the West; Gabriel the North; Uriel the South; Metraon guides the Primum Mobile; Ophaniel resides in the starry heavens; Varcan in the sun's sphe...
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