Stewart praised the comfort of the " Livadia " : " I never was in so comfortable a ship at sea in a gale of wind . . . the absence of rolling, the easiness of motion, the great comfort on board, and the handiness of steering, were such as I have never seen before in any other ship under similar circumstances of weather and sea ".
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One such account, published in 1875, claimed that " Novgorod " made an uncontrollable turn while on the Dniepr, while Reed, describing a time when the ship's engines on one side were reversed during a cruise in Sevastopol Bay, wrote : " The circular form is so extremely favourable to this kind of handiness that the " Novgorod " can easily be revolved on her centre at a speed which quickly makes one giddy.
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The historian Herbert Warington Smyth considered the junk as one of the most efficient ship designs, stating that " As an engine for carrying man and his commerce upon the high and stormy seas as well as on the vast inland waterways, it is doubtful if any class of vessel & is more suited or better adapted to its purpose than the Chinese or Indian junk, and it is certain that for flatness of sail and handiness, the Chinese rig is unsurpassed ."
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He noted that though the ending with Walter " was as good as you could ask for " and enjoyed David Robert Jones as a villain, the episode had a " number of rough patches, " as the middle was " paced slowly " and lacking in suspense, Peter's " handiness was again reduced to . . .'that guy with connections'", and the audience was " once again subjected to the torture that is Sanford Harris ".
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Diagram No . 1 represents a light axe or pick, of a kind somewhat similar to that recommended by Mr . Stephen, in a paper published a short time ago in the'Journal .'It has, in the first place, the great advantage of lightness and handiness, while its single blade, to some extent, combines the step-cutting qualities possessed by the two cutters of the ordinary double-headed axe, though the latter instrument is on the whole decidedly superior.
