T. M. Latimer Letter 7 December 1844
U. States Navy Yard Gosport
7th December 1844
Sir,
In obedience to your instruction, I went down to the Magazine yesterday with Mr. Marshall the Gunner, measured the building, and the dimensions of the same are as follows:
The exterior dimensions are, 70 feet long, 36 feet wide, and 13 feet elevation from the ground to the square of the brick masonry.
The interior dimensions 67 feet long, 33 feet wide, and 10 feet elevation between the span beams, or girders and the floor which comprises the Storage Room.
Very Respectfully,
your obedient servant,
T. M. Latimer
To Commandant
J. Wilkinson
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