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Are those small lines or roapes, which stand in 6, 8, 10. or more parts, being so devided and put through the holes of a dead-man-eye, they are of no necessitie, but only set up by the boat-swaines, to make the ship shew full of small rigging; and are placed to the bot∣tome of the Back-stages of the fore-top-mast, sprit-saile-top-mast-mis∣sen
toppe-mast, and the toppe-gallant-masts.