The Story of Our Merchant Marine: Its Period of Glory, Its Prolonged Decadence and Its Vigorous Revival as the Result of the World WarDodd, Mead, 1919 - 373 頁 |
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... by the thousands began prowling into seas on the other side of the continent in pursuit of the retreating animals . The gigantic carcasses of these cetaceans washed up on New England shores taught the people IO THE STORY OF OUR.
... by the thousands began prowling into seas on the other side of the continent in pursuit of the retreating animals . The gigantic carcasses of these cetaceans washed up on New England shores taught the people IO THE STORY OF OUR.
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... side of the Atlantic were small , and little celebrated in history . The first vessel of which we have record was the " Virginia , " described at the time as a " faire pin- nace of 30 tons , " built at the mouth of the Kennebec in 1608 ...
... side of the Atlantic were small , and little celebrated in history . The first vessel of which we have record was the " Virginia , " described at the time as a " faire pin- nace of 30 tons , " built at the mouth of the Kennebec in 1608 ...
第 27 頁
... side -were primitive . " A good captain , " said Merchant Gray , " will sail with a load of fish to the West Indies , hang up a stocking in the cabin on arriving , put therein hard dollars as he sells fish , and pay out when he buys rum ...
... side -were primitive . " A good captain , " said Merchant Gray , " will sail with a load of fish to the West Indies , hang up a stocking in the cabin on arriving , put therein hard dollars as he sells fish , and pay out when he buys rum ...
第 30 頁
... side of the town . Of these the most distinguished is Boston pier , or the Long Wharf , which extends from the bottom of State Street 1,743 feet into the harbor . Here the principal navigation of the town is carried on ; vessels of all ...
... side of the town . Of these the most distinguished is Boston pier , or the Long Wharf , which extends from the bottom of State Street 1,743 feet into the harbor . Here the principal navigation of the town is carried on ; vessels of all ...
第 31 頁
... side instead of at the end , as customary , a sailor remarked critically : " I don't like this craft ; it has its rudder amidships . " At this time , and , indeed , for perhaps fifty years thereafter , the sea was a favorite career ...
... side instead of at the end , as customary , a sailor remarked critically : " I don't like this craft ; it has its rudder amidships . " At this time , and , indeed , for perhaps fifty years thereafter , the sea was a favorite career ...
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第 107 頁 - We will neither import nor purchase, any slave imported after the first day of December next ; after which time, we will wholly discontinue the slave trade, and will neither be concerned in it ourselves, nor will we hire our vessels, nor sell our commodities or manufactures to those who are concerned in it.
第 309 頁 - 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.
第 309 頁 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries; no climate that is not witness to their toils. 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...
第 63 頁 - There are, indeed, general objections to the use of the steam-engine for impelling boats, from which no particular mode of application can be free. These are: First. The weight of the engine and of the fuel. Second. The large space it occupies. Third. The tendency of its action to rack the vessel, and render it leaky.
第 48 頁 - ... skysail, the apex of the pyramid, seeming actually to touch the stars, and to be out of reach of human hand. So quiet, too, was the sea, and so steady the breeze, that if these sails had been sculptured marble, they could not have been more motionless. Not a ripple upon the surface of the canvas; not even a quivering of the extreme edges of the sail — so perfectly were they distended by the breeze. I was so lost in the sight, that I forgot the presence of the man who came out with me, until...
第 65 頁 - York, the project was viewed by the public either with indifference or with contempt, as a visionary scheme. My friends, indeed, were civil, but they were shy. They listened with patience to my explanations, but with a settled cast of incredulity on their countenances. I felt the full force of the lamentation of the poet, • " Truths would you teach, to save a sinking land, All shun, none aid you, and few understand.
第 66 頁 - The loud laugh often rose at my expense ; the dry jest ; the wise calculation of losses and expenditures ; the dull, but endless, repetition of the Fulton Folly.
第 298 頁 - From three o'clock onward they would be burning rosin and pitch pine (the sign of preparation), and so one had the picturesque spectacle of a rank, some two or three miles long, of tall, ascending columns of coal-black smoke ; a colonnade which supported a sable roof of the same smoke blended together and spreading abroad over the city. Every outward-bound boat had its flag flying at the jack-staff, and sometimes a duplicate on the verge staff astern.
第 65 頁 - As I had occasion to pass daily to and from the building yard while my boat was in progress, I have often loitered unknown near the idle groups of strangers gathering in little circles, and heard various inquiries as to the object of this new vehicle. The language was uniformly that of scorn, sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh rose at my expense, the dry jest, the wise calculation of losses and expenditures ; the dull but endless repetition of the Fulton folly.
第 307 頁 - We dissent," said these noblemen, "because the attempt to coerce, by famine, the whole body of the inhabitants of great and populous provinces, is without example in the history of this or, perhaps, of any civilized nation, and is one of those unhappy inventions to which Parliament is driven by the difficulties which daily multiply upon us from an obstinate adherence to an unwise plan of government. We do not know exactly the extent of the combination...