Ow' old Clyde-built clippers are thie objects of unusual interest just now. What is to be done with the Cutty Sark is still the matter of pious debate. And now we learn that the Tusitala (built at Greenock in 1883 asthe Inverglac) is to be fitted with Diegel engines and run as a cruising yacht by an American syndicate. What shall we do with our old China and Australia clippers? is a subject for controversy. T suppose it would be ungracious to point out that some of them vould be—perhaps, ure being—used in carrying liquor from Scotland to the dry U.S.
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