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UNDER the title at foot a pamphlet of thirty-three pages, accompanied by a large chart, and illustrated by several diagrams and tables, has been issued. The school-ship Mercury is a vessel belonging to the commissioners having in charge the hospitals and prisons of New York city, and is employed for the purpose of training boys, committed by the magistrates for vagrancy and slight misdemeanours, to become thorough seamen. Instead of growing up to be a curse to the community, such boys are made into valuable men. The adventurous life has a special charm for them.
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American Deep-Sea Soundings* . Nature 5, 324–325 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/005324b0
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