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frequent opportunities of getting in or out such a vessel Loaded or Light and at present the Passage is very good but get not proper for my Vessel to enter it but one intending to stop here as although the Times of Access & Egress is frequent get very uncertain when in the Lake once she would be very safe or in the event of not getting into the Lake and bad weather comes on, she might be run on shore on the North Side & hauled up, two men from the Island could go to Halifax in her with Dispatches, take on oil & Skins [illegible] and Spring & Fall bring our [miscenary?] supplies by giving them them something extra for the extra Service, a vessels crew could take a fair opportunity and make the continent safely in such a craft by having a pilot with them, and when there much Property on the Island, Vessels could be Freighted to take it away.
Secondly, for the Building of such a Boat, I would want a good working Shipwright, such a Man as John Water as I don't want information but a Man who is willing to work, I should want sails, rigging, cables & ponchons, I should want nails for fastening the Deck & Ceiling, I should want about 40 small spruce [knees] and about 50 buttock Timbers very enacted agreeable to a Mould. I would send you I would fasten the skin with Copper and the other materials with the copper I think I could [furnish'] line,