The Crystal Palace and its contents.: An illustrated cyclopaedia of the great exhibition of 1851 (London, Nr. 1.1851(4.Okt.)-26/27.1852(27.März))

AN ILLUSTRATED CYCLOPEDIA OP THE GREAT EXHIBITION OP 1851.

THE NAUTICAL DEPARTMENT.
fUEliE can, wo apprehend, bo little doubt in the opinion of nil connected
^ lfitli, or interested in, naval art and tUo national science of ship-building,
.|,at Great Britain, in her maritime capacity, was not adequately represented
;0 His Exhibition. If thero was any one department of industry—any one
■ulional pursuit to which, more than another, the place of honour, in all
its meanings of the phrase, ought to havu been assigned, it was surely that
(oanectcd with our much-boasted empire of the seas; wo ought to have
[ai a complete epitome of the naval architecture of tho realm, and, if
wsible, also, a complete epitome (both by means of models, of course) of

the history of ship-building in England from the earliest times; we ought
to have been ablo to trace our progress from the days of tho coracle aud
the primitive galley, founded, perhaps, in a great measure, upon Roman
models, to the last screw-propeller man-of-war launched from Woolwich
or Plymouth, or the lost crack yacht sot alloat at Cowes. A few anciont
models were certainly to be found in tho Naval Gallery; wo had n modol
of a Roman war-galley, with four banks of oars, very curious; and another
of the famed ship of Henry VIIL, which carried him to tho conference of
the Field of the Cloth of Gold,; anothor of a first-rate,.built in Charles I. 'a
time; aud several of tho not ancient, but old-fashioned, tuba in which

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