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nd was furnished with pawls of wood or iron which fell into notches in the periphery of the windlass. These notches, being eight in number, sustained the strain on the cable at every seven inches hauled in. Afterwards the pawl and half-pawl arrangement was introduced, which sustained the cable at every 3 1/2 inches. William Falconer was the son of a barber, born at Edinburgh, 1730; he published the Shipwreck, 1762. He was appointed purser of Aurora frigate, which sailed from England, September 30, 1769, and after touching at Cape of Good Hope was never heard from. Supposed to have foundered in the Mozambique Channel. The windlass is more powerful than the capstan, in proportion to the men employed, as a man can exert a power of about 150 pounds on a windlass-handspike, but about 35 pounds on a capstan-bar. A greater number of men, however, can reach the capstan. A combination of the capstan and windlass is shown in Coffin's patent, No. 59,969, November 27, 1866. See also Fi