If any one cares to look up the _Patriarch_ in Lloyd's List, it will be discovered that the line given to her reads thus:-- And all these hieroglyphics mean something to the initiated, of whom, as a matter of fact, there are more ashore than at sea. But the main point is that the owner of her was T. Tyser, and it matters very little whether she was built of heavier plating than the rules required, or whether she was cemented, or built under special survey, or what not. For T. Tyser, otherwise Mr. Thomas Tyser, was not only the owner of the _Patriarch_, but also the owner of a dozen other vessels all beginning with a P. He was, moreover, the owner of a large block of land in the heart of …
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