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Excerpt from The Merchant's and Mechanic's Assistant: Being a Collection of Rules and Practical Tables for the Use of Commercial Houses and Those Interested in Ships, Operative Mechanics, Artificers and Engineers Showing by a series of Tables the Dimensions and Tonnage of more than 3000 Single Decked Vessels, advancing from 40 to 522 Tons. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.