The New York Yacht Club has replied to the challenge of Mr. James Ashbury, dated Oct. 3, 1868; and it appears from the correspondence that there a probability of the ocean race coming off, notwithstanding the existing differences of opinion as to the question of the proper mode of measurement, English or American. By the former, Mr. Ashbury shows the Dauntless to be nearly double the size of the Cambria; the Americans, on the other hand, say that by theirs, or an equitable measurement, the Dauntless would be 246, and the Cambria 222.

Source: The Illustrated London News, Vol. LIV, March 6, 1869, p.233