Tracts on Docks and Commerce: Printed Between the Years 1793 & 1800, and Now First Collected |
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Page 19 - artifices are made use of to obtain drawbacks fraudulently, by which there " can be no doubt that the revenue suffers considerably, probably more than " it gains by the sums retained at present for
Page 84 - had observed that the whaling-vessels would be eaten to " a honey-comb, except a little above and a little below " water, where the whale is brought into contact with the " vessel, and lies beating against it till it is cut up. A " plank lying under water, at a mill of his, had been " obliged to be renewed annually, because eaten up by the
Page 3 - and to whom the feveral petitions, " which have been prefented to this Houfe againft " the Bill for making Wet Docks, Bafons, Cuts, " and other Works, for the greater accommodation " and fecurity of Shipping, Commerce, and Reve" nue, within the Port of London, and for making " a navigable Canal from Blackwall to the faid Docks " in Wapping, and alfo the feveral petitions which " have been prefented in favour of
Page 4 - and tonnage thofe employed in the foreign trade. The importation of coals, on an average of feven years preceding 1732, was 474,717 chaldrons •. it now amounts to about 900,000 900,000 chaldrons per annum, and will probably
Page 18 - employment. Prejudices were : once applied against canals, turnpike-roads, and the use of machines in manufactures; but canals have extended old, and created new markets, without decreasing seamen or the coasting trade ; turnpike-roads have given improvements to agriculture, and convenience to markets and to travellers; machines have given extension to manufactures, and we only want docks,
Page 5 - and, if there was due encouragement, by the removal of a few inferior streets that are intersected with gardens and with rope-walks, there would be room for several docks of large dimensions, with every accommodation for wharfs and warehouses, &c. and be capable of being insulated by walls and surrounded by roads, and
Page 38 - the Commissioners of Sewers, after " viewing the same, were of opinion that the most effectual way to secure
Page 23 - 355 8312 1216 150 1369 1792 The number of ships cleared out from the Port of London for foreign Parts were British about Foreign Of about (and exclusive of Coasters) 1792 The number of ships belonging to the port of London were about — Tonnage
Page 2 - legal quays. These remedies, extensive and habitual as they have become to many, if not to almost all, of our most bulky articles of commerce, are not however at present adequate to our wants. While other branches of commerce have met with