[198] The log line is a line fastened to the log-chip, by which, when it is thrown over the side of a vessel, the rate of speed is found.
[199] A watch is a certain part of a vessel's officers and crew who have the care and working of her for a period of time, commonly for four hours.
[200] By French vessels.
[201] Measurements of the depth of the water with a plummet and line.
[202] Of the sun's altitude in order to calculate the latitude (see Note 94, p. [77]).
[203] Vessels armed and officered by private persons, but acting under a commission from government.
[204] An inward current.
[205] Studding sails are sails set between the edges of the chief square sails during a fair wind.
[206] "Here terminates the Autobiography, as published by William Temple Franklin and his successors. What follows was written the last year of Dr. Franklin's life, and was never before printed in English."—Bigelow's Autobiography of Franklin, 1868, p. 350, note.
[207] By word of mouth.