Note 1 — Chapter III
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The dory is usually hollowed from a solid piece of mahogany or cedar, and is from twenty-five to fifty feet in length. This kind of vessel is found so buoyant and safe, that persons, accustomed to the management of it, often fearlessly venture out to sea, in weather when it might be unsafe to trust to vessels of a larger kind.
The pitpan is another variety of canoe, excelling the dory in point of speed. It is of the same material, differing only in being flat-bottomed.