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if the length of aaa be increased in proportion to the decreased height of
the rudder-post, which, in temporary rudders, is a desideratum, inasmuch
as the great difficulty lies in securing below the water-mark. V\ ith. this
plan the rudder need not be two feet under water and the lashings entire y
above. To the naval officer, experience will readily suggest any improve
ment, as for instance, instead of lashings, stout strops with selvagee tails
mi^ht be secured; while inboard, round the rudder-post, at convenient dis
tance, whose ends, when the rudder was fairly slung, might pass throng i
the eye or ring-bolts used on the side of the stern post cc, and then se
taught from the poop or cabin windows by small jiggers, or by the most
convenient method suggested at the time. In a well ordered-ship ot war,
bearing several artificers, six or eight hours should suffice to put this tem
porary rudder in action, and the advantages attending such despatch mig i
be incalculable. I make no apology, therefore, for introducing so antiquated
a machine to the modern reader, though a method ot fitting temporary
rudders may be deemed foreign to a geographical narration; indeed, t ie
traveller should notice everything within reach of his eye, and at the same
time not be ashamed of copying the simple contrivances oi other nations
for we may derive a hint from many an uncouth machine that, impro l
upon, may benefit ourselves. The vessel altogether is, indeed, a rare speci-
men of marine architecture, and probably h f not been "nproved or s nc
the flood. Noah, in this country, has had neither a Seppings nor a b mon
to succeed him in the aft.of ship-building; and the ark, ^ cl J 1
known by the same name of Sifineht in Arabic, distmguis a e }
Sifineht at Noh, "ship of Noah," may indeed have bee T n f the P;^
the curious vessel in use at Baghdad in the present day. It is certainly very
ancient, both in form and appearance/" (Ckesney laylot ■ ones.)
rpi t t • f lon^. rjiev.
a "village in Province of Diarbakr, Asiatic Turkey, atthej unction ofthe
Bhotan Su with the Tigris. It is situated in a mound in the angle formed
by the junction of the two rivers, and is built of the stone from some nveis
in the neighbourhood. {Taylor.)
T< ^wM tribe of Christians who inhabit the mountains in whioh the Tigris
has its source. They number about 300 families and are the same lacc
the TiarTs which see. {Fraser.)
TOKMA SO—Lat. Long. ? of the
A river of the Province of Marash, Asiatic Turkey, and a tribtaryotte
Euphrates, which rises in the Gok-DiUe Mountains in the slop® ot ^e Anti-
Taurus It Hows past the town of Garau and is on approaching J'ciendah
a considerable stream. From the latter place its ^TVl^Tind^aria
T A^Ua^e mtlK.Provn'ce of Arzmm, AsX Tnrkcy. four
Mula Snliman, on the Tabrez and Tehran road, « «y nnd ^the m om,
tains. It has a small tort covering the rock on wlach tl»
place may contain 150 to *00 houses, of which " lb toil ^teicd
nians. the plain in which it is s tuated is a ^e tact of n^i ^^.tered
by the Murad Chai and many smaller streams. Itis81houi 3
Arzrum.