SURF, the fwell of the fea which breaks upon the fhore, or any rock lying near the surface of the water.

SWEEPING, the act of dragging the bight, or loofe part of a small rope, along the furface of the ground, in a harbour or road, in order to hook and recover fome anchor, wreck, or other material, funk at the bottom. It is performed by fastening the two ends of this rope to the fides of two boats which are abreast of each other, at fome diftance. To the middle of the rope are fufpended two cannon fhot, or fomething which weighs heavy, in order to fink it to the ground: fo that, as the boats advance by rowing ahead, the rope drags along the bottom, to hook any thing for which they are searching.

SWEEPS, are long oars fometimes ufed on board a fhip to pull her round.

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TACK, a rope ufed to confine the foremoft loweft-corners of the courfes and ftay-fails in a fixed pofition, when the wind croffes the fhip's courfe obliquely.

TACK-CHAIN plates, ftrong links or plates of iron, the lower ends of which are bolted through the ship's fide to the timbers, for the purpose of holding the rope called a tack.

MAIN-TACK, the tack of the main-fail.

TAFFAREL, the upper part of a ship's ftern, being a curved piece of wood, ufually ornamented with sculpture.

TAUGHT, the state of being extended or ftretched out. It is ufually applied to a rope or fail, in oppofition to flack.

TENDING, the movement by which a fhip turns or fwings round her anchor in a tide-way, at the beginning of the flood or ebb.

THWART, the feat or bench of a boat whereon the rowers fit to manage the oars.

TILER, the bar or lever employed to turn the rudder in fteering.
TIMBERS, the ribs of a ship.

TRANSOMS, certain beams or timbers extended across the stern-post of a ship to fortify her after-part, and give it the figure moft fuitable to the fervice for which fhe is calculated.

TRUSSEL

TRUSSEL or TRESTLE-TREES, two ftrong bars of timber fixed horizontally on the oppofite fides of the lower maft-head, to fupport the frame of the top, and the weight of the top-maft.

TRIM, the state or difpofition by which a fhip is beft calculated for the feveral purposes of navigation.

To TREND, to run off in a certain direction.

TRIPING, the movement by which an anchor is loofened from the bottom by its cable or buoy-ropes.

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VEERING, the fame as wearing, which fee.

To VEER away the cable, is to flacken it, that it may run out of the fhip.

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WAKE, the print or track impreffed by the courfe of a fhip on the furface of the water.

WALES, an affemblage of strong planks extending along a ship's fide, throughout her whole length, at different heights, and ferving to reinforce the decks, and form the curves by which the veffel appears light and graceful on the water.

WARP, a finall rope employed occafionally to remove a fhip from one place to another, in a port, road or river. And hence

To WARP, is to change the fituation of a thip, by pulling her from one part of a harbour, &c. to fome other, by means of warps.

WASH-BOARD, a broad thin plank fixed occafionally on the top of a boat's fide, fo as to raise it, and be removed at pleasure. It is used to prevent the fea from breaking into the veffel, particularly when the furface is rough.

TO WEATHER, is to fail to windward of fome fhip, bank, or headland.

To WEAR, the fame as to veer, to perform the operation by which a ship, in changing her courfe from one board to the other, turns her ftern to windward; it is the oppofite to tacking, in which the head is turned to the windward and the ftern to the leeward.

WINDLASS, a machine used in merchant-fhips to heave up the anchors. It is a large cylindrical piece of timber, fupported at the two

ends by two frames of wood, placed on the oppofite fides of the deck near the fore-maft, and is turned about as upon an axis, by levers called handfpecs which are for this purpose thrust into holes bored through the body of the machine.

WOOLDING, the act of winding a piece of rope about a mast or yard, to fupport it in a place where it may have been fifhed or fearfed; or when it is compofed of feveral pieces united into one folid.

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YARD, a long piece of timber fufpended upon the mafts of a ship, to extend the fails to the wind.

YAW, the movement by which a fhip deviates from the line of her courfe towards the right or left in fteering.

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DESCRIPTION of the CUTS.

I. A view of the Indians of Terra del Fuego in their hut.

II. A view of Matavia Bay in Otaheite; called by Captain Wallis, Port Royal Harbour in King George the Third's Ifland. The view is taken from One Tree Hill, and the tree is a new fpecies of the Erythrina. III. A view in the Ifland of Ulietea, with a double canoe and a boat-houfe. IV. A view of the Ifland of Otaheite, with feveral veffels of that ifland. V. A view in the Ifland of Otaheite; with the houfe or fhed called Tupapow, under which the dead are depofited, and a representation of the person who performs the principal part in the funeral ceremony in his peculiar dress; with a man climbing the bread fruit tree to get out of his way.

VI. A view in the Ifland of Huaheine; with the Ewharra no Eatua, or House of God; a fmall altar with its offering; and a tree called Owharra with which the houfes are thatched.

VII. A view of the infide of a houfe in the Island of Ulietea, with the representation of a dance to the mufic of the country.

VIII. A military gorget worn in the South Sea Islands.

IX. The first two figures, reckoning from the left hand, are chiffels or gouges; the third an adze of the fmaller kind; the fourth, the inftrument with which the bread-fruit is beaten into pafte; the fifth, the nafal flute; the fixth, a thatching needle; the seventh, the inftrument ufed for beating the cloth, over which is a fquare representing the end of it, to fhew the different fize of the grooves on the four fides, the number of which is expreffed in figures.

X. The first figure, reckoning from the left hand, is an adze of the larger fize; the fecond and third are different reprefentations of the upper part of it, to fhew the manner of tying the ftone to the handle; the smaller figures are tattowing inftruments, to pierce the skin, of different fizes, with and without their handles; the laft is the inftrument with which they are ftruck for that purpose.

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XI. A branch of the bread-fruit tree with the fruit.

XII. The middle figure reprefents a fly-flap of the Ifland Ohiteroa; the two fide figures, handles of the fame inftruments made in Otaheite.

N.B. the figures in the plates IX. X. and XII. are according to a fcale of one third of an inch to an inch.

XIII. The head of a New Zealander, with a comb in his hair, an ornament of green ftone in his ear, and another of a fith's tooth round his neck.

XIV. Bludgeons, ufed as weapons by the New Zealanders, and called Patoo-patoos, as feen on the fide, the edge, and the end. They are from fourteen to eighteen inches long, and broad and thick in proportion. XV. A cheft of New Zealand, as a specimen of the carving of that country. XVI. A war canoe of New Zealand, with a view of Gable End Foreland. XVII. A view of a perforated rock in Tolaga Bay in New Zealand. XVIII. A fortified town or village, called a Hippah, built on a perforated rock at Tolaga in New Zealand.

XIX. A view of Endeavour River, on the coaft of New Holland, where the thip was laid on fhore, in order to repair the damage which the received on the rock.

XX. An animal found on the coaft of New Holland called Kanguroo. XXI. A reprefentation of the attack of Captain Wallis in the Dolphin by the natives of Otaheite.

XXII. A representation of the furrender of the island of Otaheite to Captain Wallis by the supposed Queen Oberea.

XXIII. A representation of the interview between Commodore Byron and the Patagonians.

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