... set in competition with that of her being of a construction of the safest kind, in which the officers may, with the least hazard, venture upon a strange coast. A ship of thiskind must not be of ... suppose every thing in common in a country so highly cultivated as this. Interest being the greatest spring which animates the hand of industry, few would toil in cultivating and planting the land, ... properties arenot to be found in ships of war of forty guns, nor in frigates, nor in East India Company's ships, nor in largethree-decked West India ships, nor indeed in any other but North-country-built...