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That She is capable of carrying 30 Submarine bombs each containing 100 pounds of powder
The preciding properties are all which are necessary, to a plunging Vessel, such a vessel cannot be taken in consequence of the ease with which she can hide under water during the day, she can make her approaches [in the night] in the night and must be considered as a masked [battery] Magazine which can lie secure in the neighbourhood of an Enemy watch an opportunity to deposit her cargo of Bombs and retire unperceived.
Should the committee find the properties here specified within the laws of physics, and by the ordinary course of improvement reducable to simple practice, the investigation will there finish; but should it so happen that I cannot make the committee feel these truths without Occular demonstration, I reserve to myself the power of building a submarine Vessel, for which the Government shall allow a sum not exceeding ten thousand pounds; to be paid progressively as I may think proper to call for it to proceed with the work,