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15648	Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John)	American Merchant Ships and Sailors			.txt	text/plain	111140	4737	71	[Illustration: NEW ENGLAND EARLY TOOK THE LEAD IN BUILDING SHIPS] NEW ENGLAND EARLY TOOK THE LEAD IN BUILDING SHIPS _Frontispiece_ MULTIPLIED--LAWLESS TIMES ON THE HIGH SEAS--SHIP-BUILDING IN THE FORESTS MULTIPLIED--LAWLESS TIMES ON THE HIGH SEAS--SHIP-BUILDING IN THE FORESTS New England early took the lead in building ships and manning them, and and many an American ship was left short-handed far out at sea, after a shipped before the mast, records that on his first vessel men seeking the old days of ocean travel the meeting of a ship at sea was an event has long restricted the trade between ports of the United States to ships American ships for seven long years, and at its close the whalers found boats from an American and British ship were in pursuit of the same whale, SHIPPING--RIVER NAVIGATION AS A NATION-BUILDING FORCE--THE VALUE OF SMALL SHIPPING--RIVER NAVIGATION AS A NATION-BUILDING FORCE--THE VALUE OF SMALL	./cache/15648.txt	./txt/15648.txt