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Having stated these circumstances to your Honorable board I humbly beg leave to offer an opinion that I do not think the inconvenience of her extreme crankness and consequent bad sailing from not being able to carry sail can be remedied by any other means than by removing the Plant Cabin from the Quarter Deck, where I humbly conceive it acts as a very powerful lever, its weight being five Tons & placed so very high, that I hope the propriety of this remark will appear so obvious as to merit your attention.

I also beg leave further to state that the Tween Decks is filled from the Aftermost part of the Main Hatchway close aft the Bulkhead of the Gun Room Cabins with Bales of [Clothtg?] and from the foremost part of the Fore Hatchway with light cases of a
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