History of merchant shipping and ancient commerce (1874)
Lindsay, William Schaw · London : Sampson Low · leaf 200
the EnglishIndiamen of much more modern times, so as to beapplicable for war when the necessity arose, as wellas for the ordinary purposes of commerce; butneither England nor any other nation possessed atthat period any vessel engaged in commerce whichcould be compared to her either in… … of which this cut is an illustration, shows no verymarked improvement during the two centuries whichhad elapsed. 182 MERCHANT SHIPPING. CHAPTER V. English Navigation Laws—First Prohibitory Act, 1646—Further Acts,1650-1651—Their object and effect—War declared between GreatBritain and Holland, July…
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