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Title: American state papers : documents, legislative and executive, of the Congress of the United States ...
Year: 1832 (1830s)
Authors: United States. Congress
Subjects: United States. Army United States. Navy United States Archives United States Indians of North America Finance United States Postal service Public lands
Publisher: Washington : Gales and Seaton
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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le of producing yearly. And, again, it will only be necessary to advert to the fact, well known, that the establishment of anaval force would be one of the certain means of extending the business of the island. At present theimportations and sales of wrecked property and supplies necessary for the island and district, the fishingand wrecking vessels, the many vessels that find this the most convenient port when in distress, inwhich they can supply their various wants, and a limited trade with Cuba, is the business of the place,but which affords constant and profitable employment to a great number of trading vessels, and supportto merchants and to persons of all other professions. Although the soil of the island is rich, and it is capable, with the aid of its climate, of yielding allthe tropical fruits, in addition to the common produce of our southern States, and its cultivation wouldlargely reward the planter, yet nothing beyond experiments have been engaged in as regardsagriculture.
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1829.) FORTIFICATIONS IN VERMONT. 209 The convenience of the port for the entrance and clearance of the large number of vessels employedin supplying; Havana with live and salted fish, and for the reception of the large number of vessels andgreat quantity of property stranded on this coast, is too well known to our government to require anyremarks from us on those heads. Having no data from which we are enabled to state the value derivedfrom those pursuits to our revenue, we would respectfully suggest that the returns from our collectorwill furnish all information required in relation to them. There are three channels through which vessels may pass into this harbor: one is the common shipchannel, having not less than twenty-eight feet; the second is over the reef to the leeward of Sand keythrough which not less than six fathoms can be brought; and the third is through what is called thenorthwest channel, in which can always be found twelve feet. The advantages of this port for a naval

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