History of the Parsis : including their manners, customs, religion and present position : with coloured and other illustrations : in two volumes

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admiration of all professional men.” In England likewise the opinion about the vessels built by Jamshedji was highly gratifying to him and exceedingly creditable to his merit and ability. ViceAdmiral Sir Edward Pellew, Baronet, wrote to the Superintendent of Marine at Bombay to beg him to tell Jamshedji that he ought to be proud of his frigates. He said, “The Salsette sails as well as any of our frigates, stands up better, and had any other ship but her been frozen up in the Baltic as she was for nine weeks, she would not have stood the buffeting of the ice one day, whereas she came off unhurt. It was wonderful the shocks she stood during heavy gales.” The man-of-war Minden built by Jamshedji also excited the admiration of all who saw her in England. Captain Thomas M‘Arthur Low, who commanded the ship, wrote to Jamshedji as follows: “TI must acknowledge I have been remiss from my having first hoisted the pendant on board the Minden, and continued to serve in her ever since. You might have expected that I would by an earlier opportunity have made known to you the opinion formed of her in England. That opinion, as we all expected, was highly favourable. She was taken into dock, carefully measured, the plank taken off in many places, and timbers strictly examined. The workmanship and materials throughout the whole structure were admired, The report made by the surveyors of the