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8 laying on it, directly over the line of the rivets, zinc slabs, b b, each weighing thirty-one pounds English. "The sheet broke at one row of rivets after having placed upon it 188 slabs, or 160 poods of fourteen pounds each (nearly three tons); after this test a whole sheet of the safne measure was placed upon the blocks, and it bent after 199 slabs or 170 poods, (over three tons) had been placed upon it.
Finally we took a plain sheet of iron the same measure, not corru- gated, and it bent and fell from the blocks after ten slabs had been placed upon it. I believe that such results settle the question in regard to the local strength which corrugation imparts to iron and its adaptation in the construction of vessels. " With sincere regard, (Signed.) " ALEXANDER BOUTAKOFF. " To ADMIRAL ARKASS."
TEST OF CORRUGATED IRON LAP MADE IN LIVERPOOL BY
ADMIRAL BOUTAKOFF, R. I. N.
On a call from the Russian Government, the inventor submitted photo- graphs and drawings of the steamers constructed by the Liverpool Company, addressed, according to instructions, to the Grand Duke Constantine.
After some little necessary correspondence, shorn of all diplomatic red tape, a contract was entered into between the Imperial Government and
