Maritime Geography and Statistics, or a Description of the Ocean and Its Coasts, Maritime Commerce, Navigation, &C., &C., &C, Vol. 1 of 4 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Maritime Geography and Statistics, or a Description of the Ocean and Its Coasts, Maritime Commerce, Navigation, &C., , &C., , &C, , Vol. 1 of 4The intention, in the plan adopted, waste produce a work which, with respect to refe rence, should possess the utility d a gaze teer, while by connected description it might hear a continuity of perusal. How far we have succeded in this attempt, we must leave to the unerring judgment of the Public 5 we, however, owe it to ourselves to premise that a portion of its imperfections are attributable to accident, a part of the manuscript having been lost on the disastrous march which, as a prisoner of war, we were obliged to make through France at the commencement of the past year, and which we have been only able to supply m a hasty and consequently imper fict manner.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.