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AMERICAN MARINE

THE SHIPPING QUESTION IN
HISTORY AND POLITICS

BY

WILLIAM W. BATES

LATE UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER OF NAVIGATION; FORMERLY MANAGER OF THE INLAND
LLOYDS REGISTER; AUTHOR OF RULES FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND

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BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge

1893

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WILLIAM H. WEBB, OF NEW YORK,

AN EMINENT REPRESENTATIVE OF AMERICAN NAVAL ART IN
THE ERA OF ITS GLORY, THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED
BY THE AUTHOR.