A year ago a great song was made when the old clipper, Cutty Sark, threatened with destruction, was~boucht from her Portuguese owners by a Falmouth mariner and mohred in Falmouth harbour as a sore of national relic. According, however, to a friend who saw her lying there lately, the old ship does not_cut a very impressive figure. Certainly she does not look the flier she is reputed to have been. Riding light, she sits high in the water giving no distinct impression of gracious length, and this appearance of stodginess is heightened by the truncated masts, which are all that misfortune has left her. If the Cutty Sark is to impress future generations with the glory of Clyde clipper-building, a good deal of restoration will still require to be done.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.