Chatterton, E. Keble (Edward Keble), 1878-1944 · London : Sidgewick & Jackson, litd · leaf 354
of coasting are certainly worthnoting. About two-thirds of their voyage from New-castle-on-Tyne to the Pool of London will be found tohave consisted of navigating in the region of dangerousshoals. And yet in that eighteenth century, eventhough they had not a really reliable chart betweenthem,… … THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY craft insured. That meant that they could afford tocarry their coal, iron, timber, hemp, flax, or whateverit might be, at low freights. There was keen com-petition to get their goods first to market, and somevery sportive passages were made. The last of theseinteresting old…
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