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Show A Milp that Cannot Hluk. Capt. (U-orgo Meacom, n aea taptalu, whuliaMiarniiltho leisure which give Mm time to pausu and lt new I tens How into hi brain, ha ttoinhtl t:i oteut tteamrr that ho claim will lio nlmv iuteljr nntliikablo. Capt. Jti-acom litre atChcliea, 31a. Tho fuunterluof tin fleet steamer Onjtuti u,,M )cara ngo set thu captain tothlukluix howsuUi vessel wire con-ntntcteil con-ntntcteil llu oxaiulneil one of thu most f-vmou taasetiittr ship afloat, audpru-iiounwl audpru-iiounwl it not lialf built. Tlui to ell. d wukr tight ompartmcuts, ho claims, are no sood. Tley aro m thing more tlundliislouiof tho ahlp'ahdd It. If, andaaofttna not theyuro flllnt with f night. There nilnht almutuvelllia no coiniurtmi nt ut all, for all there it ktvuciithoaeiiindtho patm ngen are aoino layer of Iron plate, an inch to lire-uluhthi lire-uluhthi of an liirli thick. Cipt. .Mcicmu's Idet It n ship within a xblp. I'tret Iho vienl ahoul 1 1 built a usual, fitted, up rwiMial, Th-ii out I te of her hull, at iroir dlitamv, an Uher Iron hull shoul 1 bo plmcd nt n skinorcoter Inclosing tlio llrnt. There ahunldbo aunlcUnt epacohft Uhnen the Wei to construct till tho different wattr tight comimrtmenta neicsnary to absolute taUty, Tlxu, wlun tho outer kjII had a liole made In any of 11 com rurtineuta, there would still In other cuinpurtmunta, und If the whole outer shell were torn any there would jet be tho i ntlre ship oa safe aa all ve-uol aro now. 1 he J rim Iple it the imfo ono that n err-tain err-tain amount of routined air I bound to buoy up a certain amount of mutter lliu caUln thlnki hi Intuition es-tv.lally es-tv.lally valuable fur naval tmcli. |