Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston (1901)
Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 · Boston : Little, Brown, and company · leaf 214
unched in twelve months. In all the dock-yards,I am credibly informed there have been upwards of sixty vesselson the stocks at one time. Many of the ships built here were sentdirectly to London with naval stores, whale oil, etc., and to the WestIndies with fish and lumber. The whale and cod fishery… … 180 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON. account of the owners here, occasioned a loss to them from twentyto forty per cent. Few ships were built here, and ship-building grad-ually declined. Vessels are now built in the country towns not farfrom where the timber grows. The harbor of Boston is at this date…
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