The _fore topsail braces_ reeve _up_ through the blocks secured to the bibbs at the mainmast-head, _in_ through the span-block at the collar of the main stay, _up_ through the block on the yard, and are seized to the main topmast-head; or else _up_ through a block at the topmast-head, down through the brace-block on the yard, and are seized to the collar of the main stay. The last way is the best. The _main topsail braces_ are rove through span-blocks at the mizzen-mast, below the top, _up_ through the blocks on the yard, and are seized to the mizzen topmast-head; or else _up_ through a block at the mizzen-mast-head, _down_ through the block on the yard, and secured to the mizzen-mast. The first way is the best. The _mizzen topsail braces_ reeve _up_ through the leading blocks or fair-leaders on the main rigging, _up_ through blocks at the mainmast-head, or at the after part of the top, _up_ through the yard blocks, and are seized to the cap. The _fore_ and _main topgallant braces_ are rove _up_ through blocks under the topmast cross-trees, _in_ through span-blocks on the topmast stays, just below their collars, _up_ through the blocks on the yards, and the main are usually seized to the head of the mizzen topgallant mast, and the fore to the topmast stay, by the span-block. The _mizzen topgallant braces_ generally go single, through a block at the after part of the main top-mast cross-trees. The _royal braces_ go single: the _fore_, through a block at the main topgallant mast-head; the _main_, through one at the mizzen topgallant mast-head; and the _mizzen_, through a block at the after part of the main topmast cross-trees. HALYARDS.--The _lower yards_ are now hung by patent iron trusses, which allow the yard to be moved in any direction; topped up or braced. The _topsail yards_ have chain tyes, which are hooked to the slings of the yard, and rove through the sheave-hole at the mast-head. The other end of the tye hooks to a block. Through this block a chain runner leads, with its standing part hooked to an eye-bolt in the trestle-tree, and with the upper halyard-block hooked to its other end. The halyards should be a luff purchase, the fly-block being the double block, and the single block being hooked in the channels. Sometimes they are a gun-tackle purchase, with two large single blocks. The lower block of the mizzen topsail halyards is usually in the mizzen-top, the fall coming down on deck. The _fore_ and _mizzen topsail halyards_ come down to port, and the main to the starboard. The _topgallant halyards_ come down on opposite sides from the topsail halyards; though the fore and main usually come down by the side of the masts. The fore and main topgallant halyards sometimes hoist with a gun-tackle purchase, but the mizzen and all the royal halyards are single.