Excerpt from Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Naval Architecture: Being the Article "Ship-Building" In the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Seventh Edition It will be observed, that in the pages of the following Treatise, whenever the details of practice] building incidentally involve the mention of modern deviations from ancient cus tomary combinations or methods of fitting, all discussion as to who were or who were not the original proposers has been avoided. A contrary course would have been entering into controversial discussions that would have been completely at variance with the intention of the Treatise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.