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To Capt A.B. Pinkham
June 11th 18??

Sir having read your order of the 9th in pursuance to your order, I give you the following
description of the running rigging that is where it [?] &x with all the [?] [?]
how made fast on set up. in the first I begin to give you a description of the
Fly gibb [?]. The end is carried up and rove through a block under the
[?] [?] tack and carried down and bent on to the head of the sail. The other end is made fast
on deck.
Gibb [?] Supposing the coil to lay on deck Take one end and carry it up and [?]
it through a block under the topmast [?] and from there [?] down and [?] through
a block on the head of the sail and back again and make it fast to the [?] of the
Topmost stay. The other end is made fast on deck.
[?] [?] One end is taken up and [?] through a [?] hole as the [?] [?]
and bent on the yard. The other end is [?] through a block made fast on the sail
and then carried up and [?] through a block turned into the halyard down [?]
[?]. ([?]) One end is taken up and [?] through a [?] hole at the mast head
and made fast on the yard. The other end is [?] through a block hooked on the sail [?]
then carried up and [?] through a block turned into [?] and down again
on deck.