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It is to be questioned whether the Alabama, with all her reputation for velocity, could, in her best trim, outsteam her rival.

From An Englishman's View of the Battle between the Alabama and the Kearsarge An Account of the Naval Engagement in the British Channel, on Sunday June 19th, 1864 by Edge, Frederick Milnes