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Title: Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Bolles, Albert Sidney, 1846-1939
Subjects: Industries Industries
Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : The Henry Bill pub. Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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are described as being, two of them, light barks called caravels, withoutdecks in the centre, and rising to a great height at the bow and stern, withforecastles and cabins for the accommodation of the crews. The third is saidto have been decked throughout her whole length. In 1582, of the 1,232vessels then belonging to England, only 217 were larger than eighty tons.The Mayflower, which brought over the Pilgrim Fathers, was of a hundredand eighty tons burden. At the time when the active settlement of Americabegan, the Netherlands was the great shipping-country of the world. TheDutch had about 20,000 ships at sea to about 2,000 owned in England. TheSpaniards and Portuguese were next in enterprise to the Dutch. The Englishdid not begin to be eminent in shipping until fifty years after the planting ofthe North-American colonies, and it was the carrying-trade of the coloniesthat made them so. Ship-building may be said to have been the first industry practised in 569 57° INDUSTRIAL HISTORY
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ROMAN VESSEL America after that of house-building. The beginning was as early as 1607,The when the Popham colonists in Maine built a thirty-ton vessel Virginia. called The Virginia, which subsequently made several voyagesacross the Atlantic. Though the Atlantic has, since that date, been crossed inmore diminutive craft than The Virginia, a voyage in so small a vessel now would be considered littleshort of madness. No ves-sel like that could be putinto ocean-trade now, andpay. The Virginia was abusy little ship during its ex-istence. It came to Americawith the Gates and Somersexpedition in 1609, andtraded back and forth along the coast and to England for many years quitediligently. When Lord Delaware arrived at Point Comfort in Virginia, inthe summer of 1610, he found the craft there along with three other vessels,The Discovery, The Deliverance, and The Patience, which had beensent over by the London Company. The second vessel built in America of which there is any record was aDutch ya

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