P. 361: “My national tendencies led me, on an early occasion, to visit the Navy-yard, which I saw under the kind auspices of a lieutenant of the American navy. It is far superior to those I have hitherto seen either at New York, Philadelphia, or Washington; and presents, in the dry dock, a splendid specimen of granite masonry. Its capacity is very considerable, being able to contain a line-of-battle ship of the first class. The magazines of stores, the arsenals, and ship-houses, are well-built and excellently arranged, and reflect no inconsiderable credit on the state government of Massachusetts. In two of the latter, sufficiently large for ships of 100 guns, were a 74, and a 60-gun frigate on the stocks, nearly finished.”
Source
Henry Tudor. Narrative of a tour in North America: comprising Mexico, the mines of real del Monte, the United States, and the British colonies: with an excursion to the island of Cuba. Vol 1. London, 1834.
