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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 15 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 44344 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 78 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 man 4 boat 3 vessel 3 ship 3 illustration 3 british 3 North 3 New 3 Mr. 2 wreck 2 time 2 sidenote 2 sea 2 crew 2 United 2 States 2 Sir 2 Sands 2 Ramsgate 2 Island 2 Institution 2 God 2 Captain 2 CHAPTER 2 Atlantic 1 yard 1 wave 1 water 1 trade 1 storm 1 save 1 sail 1 rope 1 quadrant 1 main 1 lifeboat 1 life 1 head 1 great 1 french 1 english 1 end 1 early 1 deck 1 day 1 american 1 York 1 West 1 Ware 1 Titanic Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 2355 boat 1914 ship 1905 man 1760 vessel 1439 time 1195 sea 1182 life 1022 water 817 deck 743 day 690 crew 684 sail 680 yard 649 end 646 side 602 way 599 year 597 rope 590 board 548 line 535 part 517 head 503 wind 476 work 473 course 472 foot 468 master 460 steamer 440 hour 431 hand 383 wreck 368 night 367 position 361 seaman 361 mast 359 case 354 wave 342 port 342 passenger 338 captain 324 point 321 place 317 sailor 309 anchor 305 officer 301 number 300 duty 297 distance 296 voyage 295 mate Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 4359 _ 601 | 477 Mr. 338 New 250 Titanic 244 Sands 202 North 199 W. 185 John 181 United 179 Island 178 States 177 England 171 God 162 Bay 149 West 144 A.M. 141 East 129 Lo 126 York 126 Institution 123 Point 121 N. 120 lee 120 Sir 120 Ramsgate 119 Harbour 118 St. 118 South 115 Captain 113 Hull 113 Great 112 W 112 Ellerthorpe 105 Lat 104 c. 99 London 98 Esq 97 R. 97 Liverpool 97 Atlantic 97 . 95 Cape 93 S 91 Line 88 CHAPTER 86 Goodwin 85 Star 84 Water 84 S. Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 4069 it 2761 they 2398 he 2087 i 1315 them 1186 she 1135 you 1085 we 827 him 785 her 419 me 286 us 184 themselves 158 himself 99 itself 58 myself 41 herself 29 one 16 yourself 16 ourselves 10 yours 9 thee 7 theirs 7 ours 5 his 4 ''em 3 mine 2 hers 2 ''s 1 wrote:--"i 1 theeself 1 neptune''ll 1 hav''nt Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 19691 be 4986 have 1535 make 1377 do 1091 see 1078 take 1071 go 898 get 756 come 737 give 609 find 604 save 597 say 483 carry 476 call 444 use 439 keep 409 put 398 run 398 leave 395 know 380 pass 349 work 342 follow 340 build 335 bring 325 send 321 let 316 hold 315 think 310 haul 305 look 299 fall 296 break 294 begin 292 set 289 tell 286 become 278 seem 277 stand 274 require 264 hear 253 lie 236 lose 236 feel 220 show 216 throw 215 receive 200 reach 190 turn Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2163 not 1281 up 981 so 948 out 870 great 837 more 806 then 757 other 712 now 644 first 643 down 631 very 584 as 573 only 561 long 555 many 517 good 508 well 506 most 485 again 480 away 475 also 458 off 452 in 449 much 436 such 435 same 424 little 410 small 396 about 370 high 368 few 364 large 357 soon 347 still 344 almost 318 on 315 last 312 old 310 forward 290 second 287 own 285 never 285 main 284 too 276 low 276 far 273 fast 269 full 261 american Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 148 good 103 most 94 least 59 great 45 high 34 large 25 near 18 low 17 bad 15 early 14 big 13 hard 13 Most 11 fine 8 strong 8 small 8 late 7 stout 7 short 7 safe 6 long 6 heavy 5 warm 5 old 5 noble 5 manif 5 farth 5 faint 5 brave 4 rich 4 narrow 4 full 4 easy 4 cheap 3 topmost 3 slight 3 simple 3 neat 3 happy 3 foremost 3 fierce 3 dear 3 busy 3 broad 2 young 2 withe 2 wide 2 swift 2 stormy 2 pure Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 403 most 17 well 15 least 1 tempest 1 near 1 long 1 hard 1 faintest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 www.gutenberg.org 2 www.gutenberg.net 2 www.canadiana.org 2 archive.org Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45157/45157-h/45157-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45157/45157-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/5/6/4/15648/15648-h/15648-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/5/6/4/15648/15648-h.zip 1 http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/68246?id=6575f86ccff5dee3 1 http://www.canadiana.org/) 1 http://archive.org/details/reminiscencesofl00forwuoft 1 http://archive.org Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 master is not 6 _ is _ 6 ship is not 6 wind is light 5 _ left queenstown 4 boat makes in 4 men do not 4 men had not 4 vessel is _ 4 work going forward 3 boat is again 3 boat is not 3 boat is now 3 boat is so 3 vessel is not 3 wind is fresh 2 _ are now 2 _ are rove 2 _ are single 2 _ come down 2 _ is usually 2 _ made _ 2 _ made block 2 board are glad 2 boat are away 2 boat is alongside 2 boat is right 2 boats are not 2 boats sent away 2 course is w. 2 course was then 2 crew are ready 2 crew are well 2 crew taken away 2 crew took refuge 2 crews are not 2 days gone by 2 life is not 2 lives are annually 2 master does not 2 master has little 2 master is also 2 master is liable 2 men are afraid 2 men are together 2 men were barely 2 men were not 2 men were well 2 rope is _ 2 rope made fast Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 _ has no cross 1 boat is not directly 1 boat is not nearly 1 boat was no longer 1 boats are not only 1 course is not far 1 crew had no time 1 crews are not ordinarily 1 crews were no mean 1 day is not remote 1 days was not easily 1 days were not days 1 decks were not water 1 head was not then 1 life is not always 1 man made no reply 1 master had no opportunity 1 master has no lien 1 master has no more 1 master is not liable 1 master was not actually 1 men do not again 1 men get no regular 1 men had no means 1 men had no thought 1 men have no protection 1 men were not idle 1 ship does not usually 1 ship is not chargeable 1 ship is not only 1 ship is not owner 1 ship makes no answer 1 vessel is not fit 1 vessel is not so 1 vessels have no downhaul 1 vessels have no supernumeraries 1 vessels were not formidable 1 vessels were not much 1 winds were not far 1 work does not merely 1 work was no unknown 1 works did not even A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 15648 author = Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John) title = American Merchant Ships and Sailors date = keywords = Arctic; Atlantic; Boston; Cape; Captain; England; France; Fulton; Government; Great; Greely; Island; Lake; Mississippi; New; North; Ohio; Orleans; River; States; United; West; York; american; boat; british; day; early; english; french; illustration; man; ship; trade; vessel summary = [Illustration: NEW ENGLAND EARLY TOOK THE LEAD IN BUILDING SHIPS] NEW ENGLAND EARLY TOOK THE LEAD IN BUILDING SHIPS _Frontispiece_ MULTIPLIED--LAWLESS TIMES ON THE HIGH SEAS--SHIP-BUILDING IN THE FORESTS MULTIPLIED--LAWLESS TIMES ON THE HIGH SEAS--SHIP-BUILDING IN THE FORESTS New England early took the lead in building ships and manning them, and and many an American ship was left short-handed far out at sea, after a shipped before the mast, records that on his first vessel men seeking the old days of ocean travel the meeting of a ship at sea was an event has long restricted the trade between ports of the United States to ships American ships for seven long years, and at its close the whalers found boats from an American and British ship were in pursuit of the same whale, SHIPPING--RIVER NAVIGATION AS A NATION-BUILDING FORCE--THE VALUE OF SMALL SHIPPING--RIVER NAVIGATION AS A NATION-BUILDING FORCE--THE VALUE OF SMALL id = 21717 author = Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael) title = Battles with the Sea date = keywords = Institution; Ramsgate; Sands; boat; crew; lifeboat; man; sea; time; wreck summary = would be far greater if we had no lifeboats and no life-saving rockets that the boats of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution have several Royal National Lifeboat Institution--its boats, its work, and its privileged boat, for it has a steam-tug to wait upon it named the Aid. Day and night the Aid has her fires "banked up" to keep her boilers lifeboat-men rushed to their boats. flash of the seas as they passed over boat and crew, without lifeboat, the men of which had observed our first rocket, had launched In _every_ case of putting off to a wreck in a gale, a lifeboat ships a the Ramsgate boat and steamer rescued men and women and little ones from their lives at any moment all the year round, to save men and women and besides 143 lives saved by shore-boats and other means, for which The duty of the boat''s crew was to save the id = 21915 author = Cook, James title = Directions for Navigating on Part of the South Coast of Newfoundland, with a Chart Thereof, Including the Islands of St. Peter''s and Miquelon And a Particular Account of the Bays, Harbours, Rocks, Land-marks, Depths of Water, Latitudes, Bearings, and Distances from Place to Place, the Setting of the Currents, and Flowing of the Tides, &c., from an Actual Survey, Taken by Order of Commodore Pallisser, Governor of Newfoundland, Labradore, &c. date = keywords = Bay; Island; sidenote summary = Bays, Harbours, Rocks, Land-Marks, Depths of Water, This Bank whereon is from 7 to 17 Fathom Water, lies about half a Mile Off the West Point of _Laun Bay_ lay the Islands of the same Name, not _Laun_ Islands; off the East Point are some sunken Rocks near a North-side of the Island is a Rock pretty high above Water, called Cove is a small Island near the Shore, and some Rocks above Water. whereon is two Fathom Water; a little within the Island on the S.E. Side are some sunken Rocks, about two Cables length from the Shore large Ships on the S.W. Side of the Islands in the Bottom of the Bay. The North Arm is a very snug Place for small Vessels; at the Head of [Sidenote: St. John''s Island, Head, Bay and Harbour.] This Harbour, wherein is 6 Fathom Water, lies near 2 Miles to the E. id = 40958 author = Dana, Richard Henry title = The Seaman''s Friend Containing a treatise on practical seamanship, with plates, a dictionary of sea terms, customs and usages of the merchant service date = keywords = Act; CHAPTER; Fore; Mason; Mizzen; PLATE; Pet; States; Sumner; United; Ware; end; head; main; rope; sail; ship; vessel; yard summary = yard-arm, and lead through a single block at the mast-head, and set up other end seized to the yard, crossing the foot-rope. is through the lower cap, cast off the end of the mast-rope, letting is no rope of any kind round the yard-arm.) Reeve the lifts and braces, reeve a heel-rope through a block at the jib-boom end, and bend it to reeve the yard-rope through the sheave-hole of the topgallant mast, yard-rope through a jack-block at the mast-head, unhook the tye, cast TO SET A TOPGALLANT SAIL OR ROYAL.--Haul home the lee sheet, having one head yards, keeping the sails full, board fore tack and aft the sheet, studdingsail, brace up the head yards, haul forward the fore tack, and A rope or tackle, going from the yard-arms to the mast-head, to A set of ropes reaching from the mast-heads to the vessel''s id = 27642 author = Draper, Ernest Gallaudet title = Lectures in Navigation date = keywords = A.M.; East; Lat; Latitude; North summary = _Friday_--Examples: Latitude by Meridian Altitude of a Star; _Friday_--Examples: Latitude by Ex-Meridian Altitude of the Sun 83 will be the point of the ship''s position at the time of sight. changes her course several times, and as a ship''s position by D.R. is Required Latitude and Longitude in and course and distance made good. distance in time the ship is from the sun. distance East or West the Greenwich meridian is from the sun and Local Apparent Time means the distance East or West your ship is from the sun, and West line, for then the sun bears true North and South. Latitude by meridian altitude = Zenith Distance (ZD) ± Declination the time at which we measured the meridian altitude of the sun shows the noon, i.e., the distance in sidereal time the mean sun is from the First longitude by chronometer sight, meaning that at the time the sun bears id = 45157 author = Forwood, William Bower, Sir title = Reminiscences of a Liverpool Shipowner, 1850-1920 date = keywords = Atlantic; Channel; Company; Cunard; Line; Liverpool; Mr.; New; Sir; british; great; illustration; ship summary = up of the American trade in 1756 gave a great impetus to shipping. Sailing-ship owning was profitable to those who possessed high-class British ships entering our ports, and a large increase in foreign shorten the distance his ship had to travel by sailing on the great With the passing of the old sailing-ship we have lost much that was This short sketch of the old sailing-ship days would be incomplete sailing-ship in the long trades. steamer of to-day has improved, the design of the passenger ship has emigration trade, which had hitherto been carried by sailing ships; in two years of the war ships earned large freights, not, however, due to The Government control has taken ships out of the long voyage trades working of our ships at sea, but if on their arrival in port they have vessel of her time--the "Scotia"--and the ships of to-day:-- id = 42415 author = Gilmore, John title = Storm Warriors; or, Life-Boat Work on the Goodwin Sands date = keywords = CHAPTER; God; Goodwin; Jarman; Margate; North; Ramsgate; Sands; boat; crew; life; man; sea; storm; time; vessel; wave; wreck summary = present, to be saved from a wreck by the life-boat men is to him one of the wreck, the wave passes and breaks over the vessel; if the life-boat The life-boat makes good way, and soon runs across the Sands through the chance!" a sea throws the boat within a yard of the wreck, three men buried in the seas; the rescued men have never been in a life-boat wrecked sailors begin to shout to the life-boat men to come to their such a rushing breaking sea as this, and the little boat the six men are light-vessels, but no life-boat came, and the wreck might at any moment life-boat nearer to the wreck; but the heavy gale, the rush of the sea, life-boat ready for sea; that the crew of the steamer also made all Each time that the men on board the steamer and life-boat look at the id = 39415 author = Great Britain. Court to investigate loss of steamship "Titanic" title = Loss of the Steamship "Titanic" date = keywords = April; Californian; Carpathia; Mr.; Titanic; boat; deck summary = 5. What was the number of the boats of any kind on board the _Titanic_? Height from boat deck to water line amidships at time of _Access of passengers to the boat deck._--The following routes led forward second-class stairway and go up to the boat deck. forward second-class stairway direct to the boat deck. engine-room casing to the boat deck. The heavy ship''s plating was carried right up to the boat deck, and When the last boat, lowered from davits (D), left the ship, A deck was the ship as actually constructed was doomed as soon as the water in No. 6 boiler room and all compartments forward of it entered in the water-tight decks for all ships, it is desirable to form an opinion in "_Titanic_ had struck a berg, passengers in boats, ship sinking;" and he time, provided, as said before, that no ship need carry more boat id = 27322 author = Hillary, William, Sir title = An Appeal to the British Nation on the Humanity and Policy of Forming a National Institution for the Preservation of Lives and Property from Shipwreck (1825) date = keywords = Committee; Esq; Hon; Institution; M.P.; Right; british summary = great national and benevolent institutions in the kingdom, to the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck," which establishment of a national institution, for the preservation of human every coast, disasters by sea, shipwrecks, and peril to human life, must object the rescue of human life from shipwreck? That a national institution should be formed, equally worthy of Great establishment of the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Institution for the Rescue of Lives from Shipwreck._ the formation of a "National Institution for the Preservation of Life an Institution be now formed for the Preservation of Life in cases of National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, held Royal National Institution, now happily established for the preservation Institution for the preservation of Life from Shipwreck. Institution for the preservation of Life from Shipwreck. As this great national measure shall continue to establish itself in the id = 4673 author = Knights, Arthur E. title = Notes By the Way in a Sailor''s Life date = keywords = Captain; China; Hebe; Hongkong; New; Northfleet summary = ship-rigged vessel, engaged in this trade until near the end of 1863, had come from New York round the Cape of Good Hope, and later the before I left, the ship "Eastward Ho," Captain Byrne, was despatched for The vessel was condemned, the crew were paid off, and the captain left In the beginning of the year 1862 I was chief officer of the ship as the "Raleigh" came near and threaded her way among them, the crews of his came to Shanghai in command of a sailing-ship, and the two brothers brother''s ship, and went to Iloilo, where the vessel loaded and sailed with Captain Knights in charge, and with the rescued crew of the "Hebe" The whole of the "Hebe''s" crew were got on board the At the time that the ship "Northfleet" was rescuing the crew of the brig possible get a new sail in its place, so as to steady the ship. id = 44206 author = Robinson, John title = Old-Time Nautical Instruments date = keywords = Davis; Salem; illustration; quadrant summary = OLD-TIME NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS What sort of instruments did the Colonial ship-masters carry? The ship-master of today uses instruments so different Davis quadrant, the skilful navigator of Salem''s last square-rigger, is a ship-master sailing out of Boston today who does." The Davis quadrant was in common use all through the eighteenth century and It included,--sea-compass, cross-staff, chart, quadrant, basis of all future instruments of its class,--cross-staff, quadrant, [Illustration: SEVENTEENTH CENTURY MARINER USING A CROSS-STAFF [Illustration: SEVENTEENTH CENTURY MARINER USING DAVIS'' QUADRANT navigation it is called "sea-quadrant." The earlier form used by the half-way between a cross-staff and the Davis quadrant, is illustrated [Illustration: HADLEY QUADRANTS (OCTANTS) IN PEABODY MUSEUM, SALEM That so important an instrument as a telescope or spy-glass is rarely instruments with which observations could be made to obtain their instruments, the wonder is how the old ships were navigated through We do not know exactly what instruments the old shipmasters carried id = 20520 author = Woodcock, Henry title = The Hero of the Humber; Or, The History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe date = keywords = Dock; Ellerthorpe; God; Hero; Hessle; Hull; Humane; Humber; John; Lord; Mr.; Royal; Sir; Society; man; save; sidenote; water summary = comparatively poor man--John Ellerthorpe, dock gatekeeper, at the replied, ''Go, for you cannot go to a better place, I intend to go to Mr. Jones'' class.'' All the next week John was in great perplexity, thinking, John saw, sitting at his right hand, a man who had been a great An aged clergyman present said, ''I always give you Hull folks great exploits in saving life date from the year 1820, and from that time to in jumping overboard to rescue a drowning person is very great. years ago, and saved my life?'' And in a note I got from him, dated July called at my house and gave me the man''s name and thanked me for saving We took the old man to the Humber dock watch-house, and man then said to Mr. Ellerthorpe, ''Come master, it is time you were in the twenty-ninth person''s life the said John Ellerthorpe has been