The American Merchant Marine: Its History and Romance from 1620 to 1902Scribner, 1902 - 444 Seiten |
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... deep - sea fisheries . Note also D. A. Wells ' " Our merchant arine " and W. J. Abbot's " American merchant ships and sailors " . Am . Hist . R. 8 : 541 ( W. B. Weeden ) ; Ath . 1903 , 1:70 ; Dial 34:89 ; Nation 75 : 421 ; Pol . Sci . Q ...
... deep - sea fisheries . Note also D. A. Wells ' " Our merchant arine " and W. J. Abbot's " American merchant ships and sailors " . Am . Hist . R. 8 : 541 ( W. B. Weeden ) ; Ath . 1903 , 1:70 ; Dial 34:89 ; Nation 75 : 421 ; Pol . Sci . Q ...
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... deep - sea ships have been disappearing . Separate chapters of this volume are devoted to these active and thriving interests , as well as to the whalemen and the fishermen , for they are all alike our toilers of the deep , and their ...
... deep - sea ships have been disappearing . Separate chapters of this volume are devoted to these active and thriving interests , as well as to the whalemen and the fishermen , for they are all alike our toilers of the deep , and their ...
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... DEEP - SEA FISHERIES - An Historic Industry of America Marblehead and Gloucester Pioneers - British Jealousy of New England - After the Revolutionary War - National Bounties for the Fishermen - Rapid Growth of the Yankee Fleet ...
... DEEP - SEA FISHERIES - An Historic Industry of America Marblehead and Gloucester Pioneers - British Jealousy of New England - After the Revolutionary War - National Bounties for the Fishermen - Rapid Growth of the Yankee Fleet ...
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Its History and Romance from 1620 to 1902 Winthrop Lippitt Marvin. Decline of the Deep - Sea Industry - Gloucester's Success and its Secret Canadian Bounty - Fed Competition and " Free Fish " - Our Fishing Fleet now a Small but a Superb ...
Its History and Romance from 1620 to 1902 Winthrop Lippitt Marvin. Decline of the Deep - Sea Industry - Gloucester's Success and its Secret Canadian Bounty - Fed Competition and " Free Fish " - Our Fishing Fleet now a Small but a Superb ...
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... Ocean - Building at a Standstill - The Brazil Mail Line - High - Class American Iron Steamers - Why our Steam Tonnage ... Deep - Sea Commerce Coasting Craft and Men - of - War - Only a Few New Ships for Foreign Voy- aging Owners desire ...
... Ocean - Building at a Standstill - The Brazil Mail Line - High - Class American Iron Steamers - Why our Steam Tonnage ... Deep - Sea Commerce Coasting Craft and Men - of - War - Only a Few New Ships for Foreign Voy- aging Owners desire ...
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Seite 135 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Seite 135 - Straits ; whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place in the progress of their victorious industry.
Seite 40 - Whereas, it is necessary, for the support of the government, for the discharge of the debt of the United States and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares and merchandise imported, he it enacted,
Seite 120 - France and their dependencies, and for other purposes," it is provided " that in case either Great Britain or France shall, before the third day of March next, so revoke or modify her edicts as that they shall cease to violate the neutral commerce of the United States...
Seite 135 - Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue the gigantic game along the coast of Brazil.
Seite 39 - This being the state of things, you may depend upon it the commerce of America will have no relief at present, nor, in my opinion, ever, until the United States shall have generally passed navigation acts. If this measure is not adopted we shall be derided, and the more we suffer, the more will our calamities be laughed at. My most earnest exhortation to the States, then, is, and ought to be, to lose no time in passing such acts.
Seite 347 - No merchandise shall be transported by water under penalty of forfeiture thereof from one port of the United States to another port of the United States...
Seite 135 - Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry.
Seite 114 - The sum of these mutual enterprises on our national rights is that France and her allies, reserving for future consideration the prohibiting our carrying anything to the British territories, have virtually done it by restraining our bringing a return cargo from them ; and Great Britain, after prohibiting a great proportion of our commerce with France and her allies, is now believed to have prohibited the whole. The whole world is thus laid under interdict by these two nations...
Seite 15 - Ireland, and took or destroyed seventeen or eighteen sail of vessels, they most effectually alarmed England, prevented the great fair at Chester, occasioned insurance to rise, and even deterred the English merchants -from shipping goods in English bottoms at any rate, so that in a few weeks forty sail of French ships were loading in the Thames on freight ; an instance never before known.