and where is the proper place in long ships for the dead flat to be placed? 2. Whether the model has too much or too little rising, and whether it is too sharp or full forward & abaft? 3. On M^r Fox's draft he has laid his wales above the lower deck, and M^r Humphreys has laid his's lower deck at the upper edge of the lower wale. M^r Fox's plan will make the ship look the best, but will not M^r Humphreys's method be the strongest? 4. Whether the proportion of the depth of hold to the breadth of beam, is just. 5. What is your opinion as to the length of the ship? — and what are the advantages and disadvantages of such a length? Some persons are of opinion she would be better with fourteen guns on each side instead of fifteen the number proposed. 6. Whether the fore body and after body of the model, are proportionable to each other? 7. And whether the ship would not sail much faster without a round house, and of all other advantages that would result from one ought not to be sacrificed for the qualification of fast sailing? [Amos Coxe?] General Knox has the honor to transmit enclosed a copy of the estimate of the prices of timber for building a frigate, furnished by M^r Humphreys — War Office, May 19, 1794