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Excerpt from The Marine Steam-Engine: Designed Chiefly for the Use of the Officers of Her Majesty's Navy While the authors hope that the work now offered to the public is a step in the right direction, they are conscious of its many deficiencies, arising from its having been compiled in the midst of other business which did not admit of delay. Many of the rules also must be considered as empirical, especially those relating to an action, and are the result of reection rather than of experience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.