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Identifier: oceantradeshipp00owen (find matches)
Title: Ocean trade and shipping
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Owen, Douglas, Sir, 1850-1920
Subjects: Ships and shipping Commerce
Publisher: Cambridge : Univ. Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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herivers overflow. The result was to lower the bottom of thenavigable channel by reason of the scour and to raise the high-water level by reason of the confinement of the stream. To-daysheep crop the grass on what formerly was ancient marsh orsaltings, while the high-tide swells and flows some ten feet abovethe level of the grazing. The stock-owners, indifferent to thoughtsof river navigation, were the first and greatest of those who didit service. But the practicability of a river from the sea is only oneincident in the success of a river port. The other is the portsaccessibility from the land: and our ancient map shows howremarkable, in this respect, were the advantages of London. Itwas the very hub, with, as its spokes, trade-roads reachingeverywhere. In the calm waters of the Mediterranean it wasmainly the fishing villages, placed at sheltered spots, whichmarked the sites for future ports—or, rather, for such port-sitesas offered depth enough for the trading ships. When once the
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PORTS 9 possibilities and advantages of the port became recognised bythe inland traffickers, it would become a focus for the roads.When once a city has established itself as a port, with goodaccess and good safety for the ships, and with the countrys roadsconverging to it, the ports position is assured. San Francisco,for example, with its magnificent shelter and depth for greatships and with long tracks of wide-spreading railways convergingto its harbour, may be shaken down again and again by earth-quake, may be swept by following conflagrations till over widecity areas nothing remains, may be ruined and still destroyed,only to rise again more resplendent still—not because it isa residential city, not because it is situated on a harbour:but because it stands at a spot irrevocably fixed as the meetingpoint, the stepping-stone, for trade of ocean and of continent.The great ocean ports are the world ford-towns of to-day, wherethe ocean ferry and the rails continue inland the trade-routoceantradeshipp00owen

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