Then set up the aft side of the quarter piece, and with the rake from the upper edge of the lower gallery rim, 5 feet, and draw a line along the quarter, parallel to the sheer, or lower gallery rim, and ano ther line in the same direction 8 inches above it, and its length 16 feet 9 inches, from the aft side of the quarter piece, and that will represent the middle stool rail, and a continuation of the foot-space rail from aft round the quarters. Hitherto the quarter piece has ten considered as one length, from the upper part to the lower gallery rim; but as that would make it very heavy, and of an unnecessa ry length, lets it heel, or lower end, ter minate on the middle stool.
Now set forward the aiding of the quar ter-piece, which is 16 inches, on a square, and draw a line to that, siding parallel to the aft side, which represents the fore side of the quarter piece; continue dowa the fore side line from the under side of the middle stool rail to the upper side of lower rim rail. Then set up the fore side of the quarter piece on the rake, 3 feet2 inches above the upper edge of the lower rim rail, and above that 74 inches, and draw two lines forward, parallel to the lower rim, to 12 feet 2 inches before the fore side of the quarter piece, and they will represent the upper gallery rim. Then above the upper rim, and parallel to it, draw the upper stool rail thus : set up the fore side of the quarter piece, and on the rake 3 feet 10 inches from the up per edge of the upper rim, and 61 inches, its depth above it, and draw two parallel lines from thence to 12 feet 2 inches be fore the fore side of the quarter piece. Above the upper stool draw the upper finishing thus: set up the rake at the fbre side of the quarter piece, 12 inches from the upper side of the upper stool, and below that height 4 inches ; then draw two lines from thence, parallel to the upper stool, to 10 feet 8 inches before the fore side of the quarter-piece ; in the same manner, and from the same place, as above, set 23 inches, and 21; inches below it, and the pulpit rail, or upper rail of the finish, will be found to answer with the height of the plank sheer; then set for ward from the fore side of the quarter piece 10 feet 2 inches; then draw between those two rails a line parallel to the rake of the quarter, about 3 inches within the forwards; then finish the fore part of the quarter, from under the side of the mid dle rail of the upper finishing to the up per side of the upper stool rail at the fore part by an ogee curve, and the upper finishing will be complete.
Now, as the upper rim shortens so much more than the lower rim, in order to make the upper gallery lighter and small er, connect the under side of the upper rim at the fore side with the middle stool rail with an airy raking curve ; then the munions and gallery lights remain only to be represented, to complete the quar ters. And first draw the fore side of the lower gallery by a line set off on the sheer 14 feet 2 inches before, and paral lel to the fore side of the quarter-piece, from the upper side of the lower rim to the under side of the middle stool rail; and set aft 12 inches on a square from this line, and draw another parallel there.
to, and this will show the foremost muni on of the lower gallery : then divide be tween the aft aide of this munion and the fore side of the quarter-piece into three lights, having a twelve inch minion be tween each light, and then the light will be about 2 feet 11 inches, in the clear, on a square : then draw the bottom of each light about 6 inches above, and parallel to the lower rim, for the water table, and their upper parts about 4 inches below the middle stool rail.
The lights of the upper gallery may next be drawn in a similar manner. Thus, draw the fore part as before, which is 11 feet 7 inches before the fore side of the qUarterpiece, then set aft 10 inches on a square for the foremost munion and space, between that and the fore side of the quarter-piece, three munions of 10 inches broad each, and three lights about 2 feet 2 inches in the clear; draw the bottom of the lights about 5 inches above the up per rim, and the upper part of the lights about 3 inches below the under side of the upper stool rail ; hence the quarters are complete. To finish the stern abaft, and above the upper counter, set abaft the middle stern timber on the upper side of the quarter deck, 2 feet 6 inches, and draw a line upwards parallel to the aft side of the timber, and this line will be the projection of the balcony. On this line set down, below the under side of the quarter deck about inch, from whence draw a curve that shall cut the side stern timber at 111 inch below the under side of the quarter deck at that place, and to break in with the under side of the middle stool rail, at the aft side of the quarter piece ; then draw another curve nearly parallel above it, from the upper side of the middle stool rail, to project 2 inches abaft the balcony, and it will re present the aft side view of the foot space rail, as far as the middle line. Draw an horizontal line at the upper side of the foot space rail abaft, then take the upper side of the middle rim above the middle stool rail, and set it up in the same man ner above the horizontal line last drawn, to cut the aft side of the balcony, and from thence draw a curve parallel to the foot space rail, to the inside of the quar ter-piece, which is represented by a line drawn parallel to the aft side of the quar ter•piece, at about 4 inches within it; then draw another curve parallel below the former, to the depth of the upper rim, and the breast rail of the balcony will be represented also. Then draw a parallel line 3 inches abaft the middle stern tim ber, from the under side of the foot-space rail down to the upper counter rail, and that will show the after munion at the middle of the stem.