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striking analogy between such a combination, and the human body, that wonderful masterpiece of God! The masts and spars are the bones of the fabric, the Cordage or ropes are the tendons that brace, and move, and regulate, the Sailers are the muscular forces that control the tendons, the Officers are the nerves of impulse, and command, and the mind of the chief, is like the Soul to the body and the members and the actions of the total mass. but the body of a human being, is infinitely more complicate, exquisite and wonderful, the crew are divided into two watches about equally, and either watch is given to the especial command of the 1st and 2nd mates, and is called the larboard and Starboard watch. The turn of a watch on deck, which they have to alternate and maintain in unbroken constancy of succession, is ordinarily 4 hours, namely from 1 to 4 AM inclusive, then the next till 8, another till 12, and so till 4, when the Dog Watch is sett, which is just 2 hours. The reason of this is that without it, the watches of each mate would be allways coincident. the same every day. there would be no varrying and it would not work so well or agreeably. With the Dog watch it occurs that if the first mate comes to duty at noon to day, the Seccond mate accedes with his men at the same hour tomorrow and so onward in regular vicissitude. The man at the wheel is more regularly relieved every two hours. A watch is divided into 8 parts called "Bells". every half hour is indicated by the ringing of so many bells as there are eights of the watch expired. Thus instead of asking a Seaman what O'Clock it is? is more generally