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"She may be a formidable machine in the way of fighting, but one can scarcely call her a ship." "She is a floating-battery, and if they tried their best to turn out the ugliest thing that ever floated they could not have succeeded better. She is just like a Noah's ark sunk down to the eaves of her roof." "Yes, she is a good deal like that," Vincent agreed.
He asked if I thought Anderson would object to his anchoring the iron-plated floating-battery within a hundred yards of our main gates. Upon my expressing my surprise at such an audacious proposal, he replied, "Anderson has allowed these batteries to be built around him, and has permitted so many things to be done, that I don't see why he should not go a step farther and allow this."
Give us good recruits, at least five feet seven, a good model for a floating-battery, and a gun to take effect at five thousand yards, and Whigs and Tories, High and Low Church, the poets, astronomers, and critics, may settle it among themselves."
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