This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 Excerpt: ...be made up from records at the Custom House. The following tables refer to the trade of the single year 1836, and exhibit the number of vessels arriving and departing from and to various parts of the world. The first table shows the countries to which the vessels belonged; and the second distinguishes the country from ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 Excerpt: ...be made up from records at the Custom House. The following tables refer to the trade of the single year 1836, and exhibit the number of vessels arriving and departing from and to various parts of the world. The first table shows the countries to which the vessels belonged; and the second distinguishes the country from and to which they proceeded. The difference observable in the8totals of these two tables arises from the fact, that vessels arriving or departing in ballast are not included in the account which distinguishes the flags under which the ships sailed. An Account of the Number and Tonnage of Vessels, distinguishing the Countries to which they belonged, which Entered inwards and Cleared Outwards in the year ending 5th January, 1837, stated exclusively of Vessels in Ballast, and of those employed in the Coasting Trade, or the Trade between Great Britain and Ireland. Statement of the Shipping employed in the Trade of the United Kingdom in the Year 1836, exhibiting the Number and Tonnage-of Vessels that Cleared Outwards (including their repeated Voyages"), with the Number of their Crews, separating British from Foreign Vessels, and distinguising the Trade with each Country. The foregoing tables prove, to demonstration, that the gloomy forebodings of the English shipowners, as already explained, have altogether failed of realization. It is a well known fact that, as regards Prussia, to which country they looked with the greatest degree of apprehension, her mercantile navy has been most markedly diminished in amount since the commencement of our reciprocity agreement with that country. Our shipping, on the contrary, is far from having been diminished by admitting this amount of foreign rivalry. Having amounted, on the average of the three years, 18...
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Add this copy of The Progress of the Nation in Its Various Social and to cart. $226.84, very good condition, Sold by Rooke Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from BATH, SOMERSET, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1847 by John Murray.
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None. Very Good Indeed. A very smart new edition of this socio-economic study of Britain at the start of the nineteenth century. New edition in one volume. Original published in three volumes. A comprehensive socio-economic study of Britain, with reference to population, occupations, emigration, agriculture, manufacturers, trade, currency, communication, consumption, and much more. Also includes chapters on education, colonisation, and crime. Written by George Richard Porter, an English statistician who became head of the statistical department of the Board of Trade. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear and the odd mark to the board. Fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light spotting to the first and last few pages. Very Good Indeed.
