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XXXIV.] No mast, yard, or bowsprit to have large or sudden bites, or large knots, or any defects that may render them unfit to serve for the use for which they are required.

The diameter and length of the Yellow Pine masts, yards, and bow-sprits to be in the following proportion:— Mast pieces, 25 inches and upwards diameter, the length to be at least three times the diameter considered as feet; and under 25 inches to be three times the diameter considered as feet, with 9 feet added.

i.e. 25 × 3 = 75 feet. | 24 × 3 + 9 = 81 feet. | 20 × 3 + 9 = 69 feet.

N.B.—Both partners are the bigness of the mast. Length of the head, 4¾ inches to every yard the mast is long; from the heel to the lower-partners, one-sixth of the mast; ditto, upper partners, five-eighteenths.

The four quarters are divided between the upper partners and upper part of the hounds.

Yard pieces, the length to be at least 4 feet 3 inches for every inch of diameter in the slings.

i.e. 24 x 4.25 = 102 feet. | 20 x 4.25 = 85 feet.

Bowsprit pieces, the length to be 2 feet for every inch of diameter at the bed, with 1 foot added.

i.e. 24 x 2 + 1 = 49 feet. | 20 x 2 + 1 = 41 feet.

From the heel to the lower end of the bed, one-seventh of the bowsprit; to the upper end of the bed, three-eighths of the bowsprit.

1. Quality.—All the goods to be supplied under this contract to be of the best quality, fresh cut, good, sound, merchantable, and well-conditioned.