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" The proprietor ordered casks to be brought, and filled no less than nine of them with the oil that had thus leaked out. He... "
A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the ... - Page 69
by Patrick Colquhoun - 1797 - 444 pages
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The Naval Chronicle, Volume 2

James Stanier Clarke, Stephen Jones, John Jones - Europe - 1799 - 714 pages
...insist was their perquisite. The proprietor ordered casks to be brought, and filled no less than nine of them with the oil that had thus leaked out. He then ordered the ceiling of the lighter to be pulk-d up, and found between her timbers as much a* filled five casks more ; thus recovering from a...
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The Criminal Recorder: Or, Biographical Sketches of Notorious ..., Volume 3

Crime - 1804 - 474 pages
...insist was their perquisite. The proprietor ordered casks to be brought; and filled no less than nine of them with the oil that had thus leaked out. He...up, and found between her timbers as much as filled five casks more ; thus recovering from asingle lighterload of his propel ty, no less than fourteen...
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London and Middlesex: Or, An Historical, Commercial, & Descriptive ..., Volume 2

Edward Wedlake Brayley - London (England) - 1814 - 924 pages
...to be brought, and filled no less than nine of them with the oil that had thus leaked out. He next ordered the ceiling of the lighter to be pulled up, and found between her timbers, as much as filled five casks more ; and thus, but for his own attendance, fourteen casks of oil would have beeu appropriated...
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The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Delineations ..., Volume 11, Part 2

John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley - Architecture - 1814 - 932 pages
...to be brought, and filled no less than nine of them with the oil that had thus leaked out. He next ordered the ceiling of the lighter to be pulled up, and found between her timbers, as much as filled five casks more; and thus, but for his own attendance, fourteen casks. of oil would have been appropriated...
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The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical ..., Volume 2

Architecture - 1814 - 1004 pages
...to be brought, and filled no less than nine of them with the oil that had thus leaked out. He next ordered the ceiling of the lighter to be pulled up, and found between her timbers, as much as filed fire casks more ; and thus, but for his own attendance, fourteen casks of oil would have been...
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London and Middlesex, Or, An Historical, Commercial, & Descriptive ..., Volume 2

Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer, Joseph Nightingale - London (England) - 1814 - 936 pages
...to be brought, and filled no less than nine of them with the oil that had thus leaked out. He next ordered the ceiling of the lighter to be pulled up, and found between her timbers, as much as filed five casks more ; and thus, but for his own attendance, fourteen casks of oil would have been...
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Village London: The Story of Greater London, Volume 1

Edward Walford - History - 1884 - 628 pages
...to be brought, and filled no less than nine of them with the oil that had thus leaked out. He next ordered the ceiling of the lighter to be pulled up, and found between lier timbers as much as filled five casks ENTRANCE TO THE EAST INDIA DOCKS. which his correspondents...
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Greater London: a narrative of its history, its people, and its places, Volume 1

Edward Walford - London (England) - 1885 - 664 pages
...to be brought, and filled no less than nine of them with the oil that had thus leaked out. He next ordered the ceiling of the lighter to be pulled up, and found between her timbers as much as filled five casks ENTRANCE TO THE EAST INDIA DOCKS. which his correspondents were unable to explain, and having...
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British Shipping: Its History, Organisation and Importance

Adam Willis Kirkaldy - Shipping - 1919 - 714 pages
...insist was their perquisite. The proprietor ordered casks to be brought, and filled no less than nine of them with the oil that had thus leaked out. He...up, and found between her timbers as much as filled five casks more ; thus recovering from a single lighter load of his property, no less than fourteen...
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