Show dandified french sailors Sal lorg going down the harbor a day or two since I 1 was struck with the graceful appearance pe arance of the great french ram which with its long white hull bull and backward sloping masts and smokestack looked exceedingly cee rakish As a general rule the new ironclads iron are cumbrous looking objects but the french man of war appeared as light and airy as if she sha had not been built upon modern scientific principles of opposing 0 great resistance to the enormous projectiles of advanced gunnery I 1 looked with admiration on the graceful lines of the ram and thought that if a vessel had to be run down by another there would be a certain satisfaction in having the operation performed by such a keen and penetrating prow tho the french sailors whom I 1 saw pulling from one of the wharves to their ship looked as 4 trig as their vessel and yet thero there was a lack of that salty expression about them which is so noticeable in the british and american mano man o barsman wars man in somehow the sea does not chem to be the element for tho the gaul that it is for the saxon and I 1 would rather risk lisk my timbers in an inferior righting fighting machine where the hearts were of oak and the tha will of iron in boston post |