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Elevation of a Merchant-Ship with all her Masts, Yards, Sails & Rigging, more particularly designed for that which is the Subject of the Poem, 1764. Page 44 of "The Shipwreck. By a Sailor ... A new edition, corrected and enlarged [With the 'Occasional Elegy,' the chart, and an engraved 'Elevation of a Merchant-Ship.']" by William Falconer, [1764]. Falconer was a Scottish epic poet concerned mainly with life at sea. He also compiled a dictionary of maritime terms.