Footnote 41:

� 'Lash'd a-lee:' fastened to the lee-side; see note to ver. 132, p. 209.

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Footnote 42:

�'The well' is an apartment in a ship's hold, serving to inclose the pumps; it is sounded by dropping a measured iron rod down into it by a long line; hence the increase or diminution of the leaks is easily discovered.

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