They cultivated the farms of the nobility or thanes, for which they paid rent; and they seem to have been removeable at pleasure.

These are square boxes of iron or wood, with perforated sides and bottom and a removeable perforated lid.

Supposing this to be so, still, a more correct indication of the side intended to be taken might be obtained by lights kept burning for that purpose in a box with a sliding front, removeable at pleasure by a line leading to the wheel-house, in the same way as the lanyard of the bell is at present fitted; and a further palpable advantage would be obtained by obliging vessels meeting in the night to stop the engines and pass at "slow speed."