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Rh noted yacht was the Fancy belonging to Colonel Lewis Morris, whose Morrisania Manor, on the peaceful waters of the Sound, gave fine harbor and safe opportunity for sailing."

In another view of New York in 1746 the portraits of two small sloops appear; one with, what may be termed, the old style of rig-staysail and jib; the other with only one head-sail; so that we may infer that about that period the American sloop rig was introduced.



It has previously been mentioned that the sloop originated in Holland, and, like the yacht, was introduced into America and England from that country. It eventually developed into the British cutter and American sloop, and from being a ship's boat, it became a seagoing vessel of considerable tonnage. Up to the beginning of the nineteenth