This e-text is based on the three-volume book ‘Shipbuilding from Its
Beginnings,’ from 1895. Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation have
been retained; punctuation and typographical errors have been
corrected.
The side notes refer to the corresponding illustrations in volumes
II and III. Footnotes have been moved to the end of the respective
section.
Two numerical values are obviously missing in the text; they could
not be retrieved from other sources. The missing numbers have been
highlighted by triple underscores (___).
Specific font styles have been marked by using the following special
characters:
italics: _underscores_
spaced: +plus signs+
small caps: ~tildes~
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