I Believe That Man Will Not Merely

The Regular Hours Necessary To Be Observed By Those Who Follow Country Business, Are Perhaps Of More Consequence Than Any Of The Other Articles, However Important Those May Be.

The Accumulation Of Numbers Always Augments In Some Measure Moral Corruptions, And The Consequences To Health Of The Various Vices Incident Thereto, Are Well Known.

Hence A Ship Is Said To Be Tight, When Her Planks Are So Compact And Solid As To Prevent The Entrance Of The Water In Which She Is Immersed: And A Cask Is Called Tight, When The Staves Are So Close That None Of The Liquid Contained Therein Can Issue Through Or Between Them.

The Great Weight Of The Ship May Indeed Prevent Her From Acquiring Her Greatest Velocity; But When She Has Attained It, She Will Advance By Her Own Intrinsic Motion, Without Gaining Any New Degree Of Velocity, Or Lessening What She Has Acquired.

The Fleet Being Thus More Inclosed Will More Readily Observe The Signals, And With Greater Facility Form Itself Into The Line Of Battle A Circumstance Which Should Be Kept In View In Every Order Of Sailing.