Shipping Sentence Examples

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  • They gave the kingdom a connexion of its own with the Red Sea and its shipping; and they enabled the Franks to 2 Pisa naturally connected itself with Antioch, because Antioch was hostile to Constantinople, and Pisa cherished the same hostility, since Alexius I.

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  • Escanaba, on Little Bay de Noc (Noquette), in the northern part of the lake, is a natural harbour and a large iron shipping port.

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  • Lake Manitoba also affords opportunity for inland shipping.

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  • Extensive deposits, which are being developed successfully, occur in Tasmania, it being estimated that there are, within easy shipping facilities, 17,000,000 tons of ore.

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  • The city is the largest in British Columbia, and is the chief Canadian shipping port for Japan, China, Australia and the islands at which the C.P.R.

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  • In December 1654 Penn and Venables sailed for the West Indies with orders to attack the Spanish colonies and the French shipping; and for the first time since the Plantagenets an English fleet appeared in the Mediterranean, where Blake upheld the supremacy of the English flag, made a treaty with the dey of Algiers, destroyed the castles and ships of the dey of Tunis at Porto Farina on the 4th of April 1655, and liberated the English prisoners captured by the pirates.

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  • In 1792 the quantity exported from the United States was only 1 It is related that in the year 1784 William Rathbone, an American merchant resident in Liverpool, received from one of his correspondents in the southern states a consignment of eight bags of cotton, which on its arrival in Liverpool was seized by the customhouse officers, on the allegation that it could not have been grown in the United States, and that it was liable to seizure under the Shipping Acts, as not being imported in a vessel belonging to the country of its growth.

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  • It has a royal arms factory established by Charles IV., and other ironworks, considerable manufacture of macaroni, paper, breeding of silkworms, and some fishing and shipping.

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  • He was for exempting American shipping from Panama Canal tolls and also supported woman suffrage.

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  • Apart from fishing and shipping, Penzance has never been an industrial centre.

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  • Holland is a grain and fruit shipping centre, and among its manufactures are furniture, leather, grist mill products, iron, beer, pickles, shoes, beet sugar, gelatine, biscuit (Holland rusk), electric and steam launches, and pianos.

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  • Albion is the centre of the Medina sandstone industry, and lies in the midst of a good farming region, of which it is the principal shipping point, especially for apples, cabbages and beans.

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  • The water-front, especially on the east side, is given up to manufacturing and shipping establishments.

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  • Grain is shipped to and from Jersey City in large quantities, and in general the city is an important shipping port; being included, however, in the port of New York, no separate statistics are available.

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  • The harbour, though recently improved, offers little shelter to shipping.

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  • This led to deficiencies in the supply of coal to the manufacturing centres, and to some diversion elsewhere of shipping.

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  • An elevation of small extent is distinguished as a " dome " when it is more than 100 fathoms from the surface, a " bank " when it is nearer the surface than 100 fathoms but deeper than 6 fathoms, and a " shoal " when it comes within 6 fathoms of the surface and so becomes a serious danger to shipping.

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  • A harbour was first granted to Newhaven in 1713, and during the early part of the 18th century it possessed a large shipping trade.

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  • The business of shipping live sheep and frozen mutton has not been attempted on a large scale, owing principally to the lack of facilities for loading at the port of Montevideo or elsewhere.

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  • The horse-fair of Sneek is widely attended, and there is a considerable activity in trade and shipping.

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  • Iron-founding and brewing are carried on in the town, which has also some fishing and shipping.

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  • The spring tides rise upwards of 30 ft., and in a channel usually so shallow form a serious danger to shipping.

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  • The industries of the town include cotton spinning and weaving, silk spinning, the manufacture of tobacco, ropes, metal-ware, furniture, &c. The market gardens of the neighbourhood are famous, and there is a considerable shipping trade by the river and the Ludwigskanal.

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  • Judas avenged them by burning the harbour and the shipping, and set to work to bring into Judaea all such communities of Jews who had kept themselves separate from their heathen neighbours.

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  • There is more vegetation on this coast, and the bays of Chetumal, Espiritu Santo, Ascencion and San Miguel (on Cozumel Island) afford good protection for shipping.

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  • At Meshed i Sar, the port, or roadstead of Barfurush, the steamers of the Caucasus and Mercury Company call weekly, and a brisk shipping trade is carried on between it and other Caspian ports.

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  • The shipping of fresh milk to Rio de Janeiro and butter-making are comparatively new industries.

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  • Tampa is an important shipping point for naval stores and phosphate rock, for vegetables, citrus fruit and pineapples, raised in the vicinity, and for lumber, cattle and fuller's earth.

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  • Before that date Venetian shipping was built at the spot near the piazzetta, known as the terra nova, where the royal gardens now are.

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  • Under the republic commercial shipping used to enter Venice by the Tort of San Nicole del Lido and lie along the quay called the Riva degli Schiavoni, in the basin of San Marco, and up the broad Giudecca Canal.

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  • When the railway bridge brought Venice into touch with the mainland and the rest of Europe, it became necessary to do something to reopen the harbour to larger shipping.

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  • The harbour islands, three of which have been ceded to the United States for the purpose of fortification, are numerous, and render the navigation of the shipping channels difficult and easily guarded.

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  • Throughout the 14th century references are made to Margate in crown regulations regarding fisheries and shipping.

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  • The Ptolemies supplied themselves with this arm from the southern coasts of the Red Sea, where they established stations for the capture and shipping of elephants, but the African variety was held inferior to the Indian.

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  • There are few coast-lines, frequented by shipping, which have not yet been surveyed in a definite manner.

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  • It has a considerable shipping trade, and manufactories of tobacco and cigars, chocolate, margarine, oil, chemicals, brushes, vinegar, soap, guano and perfumery.

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  • Springfield is a trading and shipping centre for a prosperous agricultural region, and ships large quantities of bituminous coal from the immediate vicinity.

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  • There is a large vineyard in the vicinity; truckgardening is an important industry in the surrounding country; and Fayetteville is a shipping centre for small fruits and vegetables, especially lettuce, melons and berries.

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  • The figures obtainable with respect to shipping are approximate, the statistical data not being altogether complete.

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  • Though privateering was carried on by the French with daring and a considerable measure of success, it did not put an appreciable check on the growth of British merchant shipping.

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  • Edward II.'s charter of 1324 indicates that Cardiff ha, d become even then a trading and shipping centre of some importance.

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  • Down to the end of the 18th century there was only a primitive quay on the river side for shipping purposes.

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  • There is ample equipment of fixed and movable staiths and cranes of various sizes up to 70 tons, the Lewis-Hunter patent cranes being largely used for shipping coal owing to their minimizing the breakage of coal and securing its even distribution.

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  • Taking "the port of Cardiff" in its technical sense as including Barry and Penarth, it is the first port in the kingdom for shipping cleared to foreign countries and British possessions, second in the kingdom for its timber imports, and first in the world for shipment of coal.

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  • The view of the three from the south, presenting a continuous river frontage of six miles, the river crowded with shipping and the densely packed houses surmounted by church towers - of which three are higher than the dome of St Paul's in London - is one of great magnificence.

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  • The increase of the trade of Hamburg is most strikingly shown by that of x11.28 a the shipping belonging to the port.

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  • The development of manufacturing industries at Hamburg and its immediate vicinity since 1880, though not so rapid as that of its trade and shipping, has been very remarkable, and more especially has this been the case since the year 1888, when Hamburg joined the German customs union, and the barriers which prevented goods manufactured at Hamburg from entering into other parts of Germany were removed.

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  • He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and afterwards joined his father in his shipping business, being from 1896 to 1905 managing director of the Moor line of cargo steamers.

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  • By the terms of the peace of Utrecht (1713) the fortifications were demolished and its harbour filled up, a sacrifice demanded by England owing to the damage inflicted on her shipping by Jean Bart and other corsairs of the port.

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  • Prior to 1899 the jurisdiction of the port was in the hands of a marine board, three members of which were elected by the shipping interest, and the remaining four nominated by the government, but in that year the board was replaced by a single official, known as the superintendent of the department of navigation and responsible to the colonial secretary.

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  • In addition to the industries connected with the shipping, large numbers of hands are employed in the government railway works, where the locomotives and rolling stock used by the state railways are manufactured.

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  • The shipping, which in 1874 was 126,000 tons, was in 1884 1,013,000; in 1894, 1,463,000; in 1904 4,263,000; and in 1908, 5,028,000.

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  • Over six-sevenths of the shipping is British.

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  • It is the shipping place for the iron ore mined at Gellivara, 127 m.

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  • As shipping stations, Buccari, Portore, Selce, Novi, Zengg, San Giorgio, Jablanac and Carlopago are of comparative insignificance.

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  • Fishery and shipping are carried on to a limited extent.

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  • By the end of the 18th century the town had become prosperous by the increase of its fishing and shipping trades, and by the middle of the 19th century one of the chief health and pleasure resorts of the south coast.

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  • The shipping trade is considerable, chiefly in coal, timber and agricultural produce.

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  • In 1892 a harbour was built, but the shipping of Tiel is now chiefly confined to craft for inland navigation.

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  • The shipping trade is carried on both at the town itself and at Sutton Bridge, 8 m.

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  • The large towns through which the river flows have vied with one another in building harbours, providing shipping accommodation, and furnishing other facilities for the efficient navigation of the Elbe.

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  • Finally, in 1870, 1,000,000 thalers were paid to Mecklenburg and 85,000 thalers to Anhal, which thereupon abandoned all claims to levy tolls upon the Elbe shipping, and thus navigation on the river became at last entirely free.

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  • It has several valuable industries, and is the shipping port for the adjacent coal-mines.

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  • The Romans exerted themselves to improve the lower navigation of the river, and appointed prefects of the Rhine to superintend the shipping and to exact the moderate dues imposed to keep the channel in repair.

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  • Afterwards, as the banks became parcelled out among a host of petty princelings, each of whom arrogated the right of laying a tax on passing vessels, the imposts became so prejudicial as seriously to hamper the development of the shipping.

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  • Many of the riparian potentates derived the bulk of their revenue from this source, and it is calculated that in the 18th century the Rhine yielded a total revenue of X200,000, in spite of the comparatively insignificant amount of the shipping.

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  • The introduction of steam has greatly increased the shipping on the Rhine; and small steamers ply also on the Main, the Neckar, the Maas and the Mosel.

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  • On the Thames below London Bridge, London appears in the aspect of one of the world's great ports, with extensive docks and crowded shipping.

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  • There are wharves and a large carrying trade in barges above this point, but below it the river is crowded with shipping, and extensive docks open on either hand.

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  • Towards the close of the igth century evidence was accumulating that the development of the Port of London was not keeping pace with that of shipping generally.

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  • Besides the Royal Exchange, in the building of which are numerous offices, including " Lloyd's," the centre of the shipping business and marine insurance, there are many exchanges for special articles.

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  • Among these are the Corn Exchange in Mark Lane, where the privilege of a fair was originally granted by Edward I.; the Wool Exchange, Coleman Street; the Coal Exchange, Lower Thames Street; the Shipping Exchange, Billiter Street; and the auction mart for landed property in Tokenhouse Yard.

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  • A tactical operation of that character demanded most careful prior organization, and it called for a distribution of the attacking force amongst the available shipping based on purely tactical considerations.

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  • This was by now active, four other seagoing boats having followed U21 from the North Sea, and it is claimed that 50,000 tons of shipping were sunk in the Mediterranean and Aegean during Sept.

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  • Later its shipping declined and in the 16th century it was little more than a fishing village.

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  • Distilling however prospers, and the town is important not only as regards its shipping and the deep-sea fishery, but also as a distributing centre for the islands and the seat of the superior law courts.

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  • The chief items of imports are arms and ammunition, rice, coffee and piece goods; the staple export is dates, which in a good year accounts for nearly half the total; much of the trade is in the hands of British Indians, and of the shipping 92% is British.

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  • It is a shipping centre for the products of the farming and dairying region in which it lies, but it is most widely known for its educational institutions.

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  • In conjunction with this work the entire Danube Canal has been transformed into a harbour by the construction of a lock at its entrance, while increased accommodation for shipping has also been provided at the other end of the canal known as the winter harbour.

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  • Königswinter has a Roman Catholic and an Evangelical church, some small manufactures and a little shipping.

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  • About half the shipping trade is in the hands of the French; in 1908, of the total tonnage of ships entered, 4,155,000, French vessels represented 1,905,000 tons, Italian vessels 1,422,000 tons and British vessels 299,000 tons.

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  • The so-called coast towns are commonly at some distance from the seashore, and their shipping ports are little more than a straggling collection of wretched habitations in the vicinity of the landing-stage and its offices and warehouses.

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  • Mollendo is a shipping port for Bolivian exports sent over the railway from Puno.

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  • It was adopted by many important British and continental shipping companies, among others by the Peninsular & Oriental, the Inman, the North German Lloyd and the Hamburg American companies.

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  • Water everywhere abounds, and is supplied to the shipping by means of tanks.

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  • The city is situated in a rich farming region; is an important shipping point for livestock, grain and other farm products; and is especially known as a centre for the manufacture of wire-fences.

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  • Among the other manufactures are food preparations, wooden ware, wagons and carriages, stoves and furnaces, boots and shoes, tobacco and cigars, flour, candy, gloves, bricks, tile and pottery, furniture, paper boxes and firearms. Utica is a shipping point for the products of a fertile agricultural region, from which are exported dairy products (especially cheese), nursery products, flowers (especially roses), small fruits and vegetables, honey and hops.

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  • Of the 278,000 tons of shipping which entered the port in 1905, 244,000 were British.

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  • The transit and shipping trade is considerable, and as one of the principal markets of South Holland, the round, white Gouda cheeses are known throughout Europe.

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  • Eight hydraulic hoists, of the most up-to-date pattern, are capable of shipping 5,600 tons of coal per hour.

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  • The war was very unpopular in Denmark, and the closing of the Sound against foreign shipping, in order to starve out Sweden, had exasperated the maritime powers and all the Baltic states.

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  • He was the earnest champion of the advancement of American shipping, and advocated liberal subsidies, insisting that the policy of protection should be applied on sea as well as on land.

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  • The shipping traffic is chiefly in the coasting and Irish trade.

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  • The fisheries are extensive, and though there are no ports of the first magnitude on the firth, a considerable shipping trade is carried on at Whitehaven, Harrington, Workington, Maryport and Silloth in Cumberland, and at Annan, Kirkcudbright, Creetown and Wigtown on the Scottish side.

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  • On the advent of steam the shipping declined, and even the herring fishery, which fostered a large curing trade, has lost much of its prosperity.

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  • Maracaibo is chiefly known, however, as one of the principal commercial centres and shipping ports on the northern coast of South America.

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  • In 1905 nearly 180,000 tons of shipping cleared the port.

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  • During the Napoleonic wars and the Crimean campaign the Grand Harbour was frequently overcrowded with shipping.

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  • The shipping cleared in1905-1906was 3524 vessels of 3,718,168 tons.

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  • Columbia is in a fine farming region; is engaged extensively in the mining and shipping of phosphates; has an important trade in live-stock, especially mules; manufactures cotton, lumber, flour, bricks, pumps and woollen goods; and has marble and stone works.

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  • Amongst these are the dome, an isolated elevation rising steeply but not coming within too fathoms of the surface; the bank, an elevation coming nearer the surface than too fathoms, but not so near as 6 fathoms; and finally the shoal or reef, which comes within 6 fathoms of the surface, and so may constitute a danger to shipping.

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  • Chobe stands on a shallow creek almost inaccessible to shipping.

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  • The inhabitants are engaged in cattlerearing, the cultivation of corn, hops and fruit, shipbuilding and the shipping trade, and the manufacture of cloth, paper and cutlery.

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  • In these fresh undertakings he became associated with the two greatest German shipping concerns, the Hamburg-American line and the North German Lloyd.

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  • At Flensburg in Schleswig he secured control of the largest Baltic shipping concern, and proceeded to build a new fleet of ships, christening one of them the " Hindenburg."

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  • Hampton is an agricultural shipping point, ships fish, oysters and canned crabs, and manufactures fish oil and brick.

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  • There is an excellent harbour, and a considerable shipping trade is done.

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  • New York, whose growing shipping interests had suffered by the Embargo of 1807, was as a commercial state opposed to the war.

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  • This affair prompted the Ottoman Government to close the Darda nelles and Bosporus against all shipping, a course which caused immense loss and inconvenience to neutral Powers and produced such vigorous protest, particularly from Russia, that the straits were reopened in May.

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  • Excellent as the quality of the best New Zealand coal is, the cost of mining and shipping it prevents the growth of any considerable export trade.

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  • These laws deal with truck, employers' liability, contractors' workmen, the recovery of workmen's wages, the hours of closing in shops and merchants' offices, conspiracy amongst trade unionists, and with factories, mines, shipping and seamen..

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  • In the 18th century it ranked next to Leith as a port, but the growth of Grangemouth, higher up the firth, seriously affected its shipping trade, which is, however, yet considerable, coal and pig-iron forming the principal exports, and pit props from the Baltic the leading import.

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  • The statistical work includes compiling abstracts, memoranda, tables and charts relating to the trade and industrial conditions of the United Kingdom, the colonies and foreign countries, the supervision of the trade accounts, the preparation of monthly and annual accounts of shipping and navigation, statistics as to labour, cotton, emigration and foreign and colonial customs, tariffs and regulations.

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  • The Marine Department was created a separate branch of the board of trade in 1850, about which time many new and important marine questions came under the board of trade, such, for example, as the survey of passenger steamers, the compulsory examination of masters and mates, the establishment of shipping offices for the engagement and discharge of seamen.

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  • The consolidating Merchant Shipping Act of 1854 and subsequent legislation so much increased the department that in 1866 it was divided into three, viz.

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  • Milwaukee is favourably situated commercially, with excellent facilities for shipping both by lake and rail afforded by four trunk lines and a dozen lines of lake steamboats.

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  • The water is muddy; and the course for shipping considerably exceeds in length the distances given above, by reason of the numerous shoals it is necessary to avoid.

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  • Unsupported by shipping, the American armies fought toward the sea with the mountains at their back protecting them against Indians leagued with the British.

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  • Olney is an important shipping point for the agricultural products of this district; oil is found in the vicinity; and the city has various manufactures.

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  • Some shipping is carried on at the harbour at the mouth of the Peffery, about a mile below the burgh.

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  • It is in the Illinois coal region, and coal-mining is the most important industry; the city is also a shipping point for hay and grain grown in the vicinity.

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  • They maintained order in the markets, settled disputes, examined the quality of the articles exposed for sale, tested weights and measures, collected the harbour dues and enforced the shipping regulations.

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  • At one time the Bu Ragrag afforded a much better harbour than it does now; the roadstead is quite unprotected, and there is a dangerous bar at the mouth of the river, which hampers the shipping, and makes the growth of trade slow.

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  • His settlement of the railway dispute in 1906 was universally applauded; and the bills he introduced and passed for reorganizing the port of London, dealing with Merchant Shipping, and enforcing the working in England of patents granted there, and so increasing the employment of British labour, were greeted with satisfaction by the tariff-reformers, who congratulated themselves that a Radical free-trader should thus throw over the policy of laisser faire.

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  • The busy shipping suburbs of Port Melbourne and Williamstown occupy the flat alluvial land at the mouth of the Yarra.

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  • During the middle ages it was a considerable centre of commerce and shipping, and under the Hohenstaufen emperors was raised to the rank of a free imperial city.

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  • The railway was first completed in 1894, but light and defective construction, together with lack of shipping facilities at its terminal points, rendered it useless.

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  • It is a business centre for the prosperous farming region by which it is surrounded, and is a shipping point for oysters and fish; among its manufactures are canned fruits and vegetables, flour, hominy, phosphates, underwear and lumber.

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  • Below the lowest bridge on the river, and therefore in the neighbourhood of the shipping quarter, is the customs house (1781-1791), considered one of the chief ornaments of the city.

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  • The Dublin Port and Docks Board, which was created in 1898 and consists of the mayor and six members of the corporation, with other members representing the trading and shipping interests, undertook considerable works of improvement at the beginning of the 10th century.

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  • It is a shipping and transfer point and has paper mills, machine shops, flour mills, sash, door and blind factories, a launch and pleasure-boat factory, and knitting works, cheese factories and dairies, brick yards and grain elevators.

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  • Bismarck is the headquarters for navigation of the upper Missouri river, is situated in a good agricultural region, and has a large wholesale trade, shipping grain, hides, furs, wool and coal.

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  • This is the port for a considerable coal-mining district, and its harbour, on the south side of the river, is provided with mechanical appliances for shipping coal.

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  • It is a shipping centre for a large wheat, fruit and cotton-raising region, and the principal jobbing market for northern Texas, Oklahoma and part of Louisiana, and the biggest distributing point for agricultural machinery in the South-west.

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  • More than half the shipping entering and leaving the ports of the United States in 1908 was British; Germany, the Scandinavian countries, France, Holland and Italy ranking next in order; the United States, although ranking after Great Britain, contributed less than a seventh of the total.

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  • The merchant marine of the United States in 1900 totalled 5,164,839 net tons, which was less than that of 1860 (5,353,808), in which year American shipping attained an amount which only in recent years Exports of Domestic Merchandise.

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  • In the decline that followed the Civil War an apparent minimum was reached of 4,068,034 tons in 188o; but this does not adequately indicate the depression of the, shipping interest, inasmuch as the aggregate was kept up by the tonnage of vessels engaged in the coasting trade and commerce of the inland waters, from which foreign shipping is by law excluded.

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  • New England still supplies a quarter of the shipping annually built along the entire seaboard of the country; but more is yearly built upon the Great Lakes than upon the seaboard.

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  • Of the nine provinces of Canada only two have no coast line on salt water, the western prairie provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan; but Manitoba and Ontario have a seaboard only on Hudson Bay and its southern extension James Bay respectively, and there is no probability that the shallow harbours of the latter bay will ever be of much importance for shipping, though Churchill Harbour on the west side of Hudson Bay may become an important grain port.

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  • Besides furnishing technical and general information as to the carrying on of dairying operations, the government has established and maintained illustration cheese factories and creameries in different places for the purpose of introducing the best methods of co-operative dairying in both the manufacturing and shipping of butter and cheese.

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  • The shipping trade of the port revived after the construction of the new dock in 1841, and corn and timber have been imported for centuries.

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  • He surprised the world, which had supposed him to be a recluse and a mystic, by the practical interest he took in the mining population of Durham and in the great shipping and artisan industries of Sunderland and Gateshead.

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  • The great earthquake of 1868, followed by a tidal wave, nearly destroyed the town and shipping.

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  • In 1902 it afforded 10 alongside berths for shipping.

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  • The new port works, under construction since 1903, consist of a new water-front for the Saude, Gamboa and Sacco de Alferes districts, in which the shipping interests are centred, and a continuation of the sea-wall across the shallow Sao Christovao bay to the Ponta do Caju, the large reclaimed area to be filled in by the removal of some small hills.

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  • In the vicinity large quantities of coal are mined, for which the city is an important shipping point.

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  • Hull is one of the principal shipping ports for the manufactures of Yorkshire and Lancashire, and has direct communication with the coal-fields of the West Riding.

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  • Of passenger steamship services from Hull the principal are those to the Norwegian ports, which are greatly frequented during the summer; these, with others to the ports of Sweden, &c., are in the hands of the large shipping firm of Thomas Wilson & Co.

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  • Although the carrying trade of Hanover is to a great extent absorbed by Hamburg and Bremen, the shipping of the province counted, in 1903, 750 sailing vessels and 86 steamers of, together, 55,498 registered tons.

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  • Among the more important legislative changes with which he was principally connected were a reform of the Navigation Acts, admitting other nations to a full equality and reciprocity of shipping duties; the repeal of the labour laws; the introduction of a new sinking fund; the reduction of the duties on manufactures and on the importation of foreign goods, and the repeal of the quarantine duties.

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  • From the letters patent addressed to the bailiffs of Padstow demanding the survey and delivery of ships for foreign service, the appointment of a king's butler for the port, and the frequent recourse which was had to the king's courts for the settlement of disputes of shipping, Padstow appears to have been a port of considerable repute in the 14th century.

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  • The town was founded in 1870 as a shipping port for the recently discovered silver mines of that vicinity, and belonged to Bolivia until 1879, when it was occupied by a Chilean military force.

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  • It is a trading and shipping centre of an extensive farming territory devoted to the raising of live-stock and to the growing of cotton, Indian corn, fruit, &c. It has large cotton gins and compresses, a large cotton mill, flour mills, canning and ice factories, railway repair shops, planing mills and carriage works.

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  • Kankakee is also a shipping point for agricultural products.

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  • I questioned with them concerning their shipping and manner of sayling.

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  • The harbour is an open roadstead, very dangerous to shipping in northerly winds, and the discharge and loading of cargoes is effected by means of lighters at considerable risk and expense.

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  • There is a considerable shipping trade, and the industries comprise the manufacture of tobacco, salt and chicory, and of cotton goods and hats.

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  • The principal places frequented by shipping are Pulicat, Madras, Sadras, Pondicherry, Cuddalore, Tranquebar, Nagore, and Negapatam.

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  • The valley is a part of the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania, fire clay abounds in the vicinity, and .the borough's principal industries are the mining and shipping of coal, and the manufacture of shirts and foundry products.

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  • Sidon, Tyre and Aradus, though now connected with the mainland, were built originally upon islands; the Phoenicians preferred such sites, because they were convenient for shipping and easily defended against attack.

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  • Toledo is the port of entry for the Miami customs district and is an important shipping point for the iron and copper ores and lumber from the Lake Superior and Michigan regions, for petroleum, coal, fruit, and grain and clover-seed.

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  • There is a considerable shipping trade.

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  • The registration of deaths at sea is regulated by the act of 1874 together with the Merchant Shipping Act 1894.

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  • It received a temporary check from the disasters of the Spanish-American War of 1898;1898; but less than a year later it paid about X55 0, 000 in industrial and commercial taxes, or more than r i% of the whole amount thus collected in the kingdom; and within five years it had become a port of regular call for thirty-five important shipping companies.

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  • After the Union its shipping fell off, Jacobite troubles and the American War of Independence accelerating the decline.

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  • Its shipping facilities have raised Rotterdam to the position of the first commercial city of Holland.

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  • The total length of navigable channels is about 1150 m., but sand banks and shallows not infrequently impede the shipping traffic at low water during the summer.

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  • This, taken in conjunction with the advance in trade and shipping, the diminution in emigration, and the prosperity of the savings banks, points to a favourable state in the condition of the people.

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  • It is, however, certain that nothing would have driven the Provinces to take part in the war but for the overbearing attitude of the British government with regard to the right of neutral shipping upon the seas, and the heavy losses sustained by Dutch commerce at the hands of British privateers.

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  • Bremen is the centre for some of the more important of the German shipping companies, especially of the North German Lloyd (founded in 1856), which, on the 1st of January 1905, possessed a fleet of 382 steamers of 693,892 tons, besides lighters and similar craft.

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  • The borough was long a famous shipping point for coal.

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  • Between Binondo and the bay is San Nicholas, with the United States customhouse and large shipping interests.

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  • In the great gale of 1799 seventy sail, including the "York," 74 guns, were wrecked off the reef, and this disaster compelled the authorities to take steps to protect shipping.

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  • Instead of this the Russian chancellor Nikita Panin proposed an armed league to embrace all the neutral powers, for the purpose of protecting neutral shipping in time of war.

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  • In summer, passenger steamers run to and from Ilfracombe pier; but the shipping trade generally has declined, though herring fisheries are carried on with success.

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  • Navigaiion.The seamen of Frisia are among the best in the world, and the shipping of Bremen and Hamburg had won a respected name tong before a German mercantile marine, properly co called, was heard of.

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  • The fourth begins from 1881 with the purchase of practically all the railways in Prussia by the government, and the introducI tion of a uniform system of interworking between the various state systems. The purchase of the railways otal Shipping.

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  • The first step was the inclusion of Hamburg and Bremen in the Zollverein; this was necessary if German maritime enterprise was to become a national and not merely a local concern, for the two Hansa cities practically controlled the whole foreign trade and owned three-quarters of the shipping; but so long as they were excluded for the Customs Union their interests were more -cosmopolitan than national.

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  • For an increase in the navy there was, indeed, sufficient excuse in the enormous expansion of German over-sea commerce and the consequent growth of the mercantile marine; the value of foreign trade, which in 1894 was 365,000,000, had risen in 1904 to 610,000,000, and in the same period the tonnage of German merchant shipping had increased by 234%.

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  • All these rivers have high falls not far from Lake Superior, and Kakebeka Falls on the Kaministiquia supplies power to the twin cities of Fort William and Port Arthur, while the deep water of its mouth makes the great shipping port for western wheat during the summer.

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  • The total of shipping entered in 1906 was 6586 vessels with a tonnage of 6,867,442, while that cleared was 6611 vessels with a tonnage of 6,682,104.

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  • The shipping trade amounts to £500,000 to £600,000 a year, almost entirely manganese ore, with some maize.

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  • At the same time special privileges were granted to articles imported by sea, so as to foster the trade of Trieste and Fiume; as in Germany a subvention was granted to the great shipping companies, the Austrian Lloyd and Adria; the area of the Customs Union was enlarged so as to include Trieste, Istria and Dalmatia, as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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  • The coast is for the most part flat, more regular in outline and less favourable to shipping, while in the east, 1 The name T pcvaKpia was no doubt suggested by the OpcvaKln of Homer (which need not, however, be Sicily), and the geography was then fitted to the apparent meaning given to the name by the change.

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  • The bay is well protected by St Vincent, Flag, Sand, and St George's islands; and the shipping of lumber, naval stores and cotton, which reach the city by way of the river, forms the principal industry.

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  • In the same period the percentage of British shipping, which before 1900 was nearly 50, varied from 40 to 45, No other nation had more than 12% of the tonnage, Italy, France, Austria and Turkey each having 9 to 12%.

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  • The transit trade with the East, which formerly passed overland through Egypt, has been diverted to the Suez Canal, the traffc through which has little to do with the trade or shipping of Egypt.

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  • Annual returns are published in Cairo in English or French by the various ministries, and British consular reports on the trade of Egypt and of Alexandria and of the tonnage and shipping of the Suez Canal are also issued yearly.

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  • The coasts are generally low and sandy; the whole western shore of Jutland is a succession of sand ridges and shallow lagoons, very dangerous to shipping.

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  • There can, indeed, be no doubt that the Danish and Norwegian merchants at the end of the i 6th century flourished exceedingly, despite the intrusion and competition of the Dutch and the dangers to neutral shipping arising from the frequent wars between England, Spain and the Netherlands.

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  • The city has street cars, electric-lights and telephone service, and the port has a shipping pier 1640 ft.

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  • Definite statements regarding the number and tonnage of shipping are, however, lacking till the 18th century.

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  • These figures only represent a portion of the total shipping of the kingdom.

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  • Their status is modified by the movements of shipping, and for purposes of comparison the entrance and clearance tonnage of the trade with British colonies and foreign countries and of the coastwise traffic are exhibited in the second and third sections of the same table.

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  • Sir Nial Campbell of Lochow, founder of the house of Argyll, secured shipping for him, and he reached a castle of Macdonald of Islay (Angus Og), his ally, at Dunaverty in Kintyre.

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  • On that footing the foreign office grants passports to the holders of colonial certificates of naturalization, and protects them in all foreign countries but that of their origin; and the Merchant Shipping Act 1894, sec. 1, allows persons naturalized in British possessions to be owners of British ships.

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  • It possesses a good harbour; docks and extensive coalingwharves, which have been acquired by government from the Tanjong Pagar Dock Company, and are undergoing considerable extensions; an admiralty dockyard; and many facilities for shipping.

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  • The first is the oldest and most crowded section, and is now devoted chiefly to the commercial and financial interests of the port; here are the custom house, merchants' exchange (Praga do Commercio), shipping offices, banks and wholesale houses.

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  • The small ports along the coast, therefore, do not afford much protection to shipping.

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  • The passage north of Puna Island is known as the Morro channel, but its entrance is obstructed by shoals and it is considered dangerous for shipping.

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  • A small port in the Jambeli channel, on the south-east shore of the gulf, is that of Puerto Bolivar, or Puerto Huaila, the shipping port for the town of Machala and the Zaruma mining region.

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  • It has a population of 200, chiefly centred in the village of Puna, at its north-east extremity, which is a shipping port and health resort for the city of Guayaquil.

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  • Lights and Buoys.-In view of the difficulties attending navigation in the Gulf, and the impossibility of arranging with the Governments of the littoral for the provision of lights and buoys except on terms which would have greatly hampered shipping, the British Government, in view of the great preponderance of British shipping in the Gulf, has established since 1912 a very complete system of lights and buoys, the cost of which is shared in equal moieties by the Government of India and H.M.

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  • It imports commodities to the value of nearly 2,000,000 yearly, half of which is coal, with petroleum, iron, cereals, &c. In 1906, 777,000 tons of shipping, of which about half was British, and most of the rest Italian, entered.

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  • It carries on a number of small manufactures and has some shipping trade, chiefly with Hamburg, but the rise of Harburg has deposed it from its former position as the chief port of Hanover.

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  • He also secured the creation of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance for shipping, later extended to include life 'insurance for soldiers and sailors in the World War.

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  • This body controls the exchange and appoints brokers, shipping agents and underwriters.

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  • They were encouraged by papal bulls in their contest for the rights of property in wrecks and for the protection of shipping against pirates and slavehunters.

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  • Europeans control the shipping business and have a share in the collection of some of the more Trading .

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  • In those districts where the staples of export are largely grown, the cultivators commonly sell their crops to travelling brokers, who re-sell to larger dealers, and so on until the commodities reach the hands of the agents of the great shipping houses.

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  • The city is a shipping point for a rich grain, cotton, livestock and lumber region.

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  • The ciudad vieja is largely devoted to commercial, shipping and financial interests.

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  • The manufacturing and shipping districts are mostly along the west water-front.

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  • It is the shipping point of the Bedford Indiana (oolitic) limestone, which is found in the vicinity and is one of the most valuable and best known building stones in the United States - of this stone were built the capitols of Indiana, Georgia, Mississippi and Kentucky; the state historical library at Madison, Wisconsin; the art building at St Louis, Missouri; and many other important public buildings.

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  • The acreage given to it in 1899 was one-fourth the total cereal acreage, and San Francisco in 1902-1904 was the shipping point of the larger part of American exported barley, of (roughly) three-quarters in 1902, seven-eighths in 1903 and four-fifths in 1904.

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  • Corinto is the headquarters of shipping; it is visited by two-thirds of the 2100 vessels of 550,000 tons (including coasters) which annually enter the ports of the republic. The coasting trade is restricted to vessels under the Nicaraguan flag.

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  • It is generally used as a system of local extortion imposed upon travellers and shipping.

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  • Danzig originally owed its commercial importance to the fact that it was the shipping port for the corn grown in Poland and the adjacent regions of Russia and Prussia; but for some few years past this trade has been slipping away from her.

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  • During the early years of the 10th century the shipping of the port increased considerably in tonnage.

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  • It gives shelter not only to vessels plying to its adjoining ports but serves as a harbour of refuge for shipping bound up or down the Atlantic coast, and is fre q uently used for the assembling of naval fleets.

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  • There was a port at Whitby in the 12th century and probably before, and though never important there have always since been traces of Whitby shipping and merchandise.

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  • The chief industries are distilling, fisheries, shipbuilding and shipping, especially the export of coal and iron.

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  • The great bulk of the wine is stored for many years before shipping, but this does not apply to the commoner varieties, nor to the finest wines, which, being the produce of a specific year, are shipped unblended and as a vintage wine.

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  • As the administrative headquarters of the district, and the chief port on the Coromandel coast after Madras, Cocanada was formerly of considerable importance, but its shipping trade has declined, owing to the silting of the anchorage, and to the construction of the railway.

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  • Sale is the head of the Gippsland lakes navigation, the shipping being brought from the lakes to the town by canal.

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  • Penn Yan is an important shipping point in the apple and grape-growing region of central New York, and winemaking is an important industry.

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  • At the broad shipping quay (Skeppsbro) which flanks the palace on the north and east, most of the sea-going steamers lie; and the exchange, custom-house, numerous banks and merchants' offices are in the immediate vicinity.

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  • He desired that it should be applied to a fund for insurance and old age pensions for workmen and old people, to the lightening of the municipal taxes by state contributions to the schools and workhouses, to the abolition of the land taxes and of the obligation of keeping a horse and man for military service, and, lastly, to the improvement of the shipping trade; but the Riksdag decided to devote it to other objects, such as the payment of the deficit in the budget, the building of railways and augmentation of their material, as well as to improvements in the defences of the country.

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  • The shipping entries at all Chilean ports during the year 1904, both national and foreign, numbered 11,756, aggregating 17,723,138 tons, and the clearances 11,689, aggregating 17,370,763 tons.

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  • Aguilas is built on the landward side of a small peninsula, between two bays - the Puerto Ponente, a good harbour, on the south-west, and the Puerto Levanto, which is somewhat dangerous to shipping in rough weather, on the north-east.

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  • The capital of the state is Fortaleza, sometimes called Ceara, which is also the principal commercial centre and shipping port.

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  • Shipping and Navigation.Shipping under the Persian flag is restricted to vessels belonging to the Persian Gulf ports.

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  • The following figures from the commercial statistics published by the Persian Customs Department show the total shipping at the four principal Persian Gulf ports, Bushire, Bander Lingah, Bander Abbasi and Muhamrah during the years 1904-1907.

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  • The British shipping amounted to 89.2% of the total shipping at the four ports during the years 1904-1907.

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  • There was no German shipping in the gulf before 1906, but in the first year of its appearance (1906-1907), its tonnage at the gulf ports was almost as much as that of all other nations with the exception of Great Britain.

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  • Bander Lingah being the port where most of the pearls obtained on the Arabian coast of the gulf are brought to and exported from, has more native shipping (all sailing vessels) than the other ports.

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  • All the shipping on the Caspian is under the Russian flagi and no returns of the arrivals and departures of vessels at the Persian ports were published before 1906.

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  • According to the statistics of the customs department the shipping of the Persian ports amounted in1906-1907to 650,727 tons.

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  • Sir Ronald Thomson, the British representative in Persia, having at the same time induced the shah to consider the advantages to Persia of opening the Karun River and connecting it with Teheran by a carriageable road, a small river steamer for controlling the shipping on the Karun was ordered as well, and the construction of the road was decided upon.

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  • When the steamers were ready to do the work they had been intended for, the farmer, or farmers, of the Gulf customs raised difficulties and objected to pay the cost of maintaining the Persepolis; the governor of Muhamrah would not allow any interference with what he considered his hereditary rights of the shipping monopoly on the Karun, and the objects for which the steamers had been brought were not attained.

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  • Among other engineers, Telford and Stephenson favoured the project of converting Wallasey Pool into a great basin for shipping; but, largely owing to the fears of Liverpool lest a formidable rival should thus be created, it was not until 1843 that parliamentary powers were obtained, and the work entrusted to James Rendel, who finished it in less than five years.

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  • On the island is the small town of Ternate, which, in spite of its good harbour, carried on no considerable trade or shipping, and has only 3000 inhabitants.

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  • There is in addition the Thames division, recruited mostly from sailors, charged with the patrol of the river and the guardianship of the shipping.

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  • The coast, fully exposed to the open ocean, abounds in fine cliff scenery, including numerous caves and natural arches, but is notoriously dangerous to shipping.

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  • In the ten years1899-1908the tonnage of shipping entered and cleared rose from 1,181,00o to 2,046,000.

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  • The foreign settlement occupies a position between the native town and the sea, which neither affords a, convenient access for shipping nor allows space for any great extension of area.

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  • The shipping trade is considerable, but as a trans-Atlantic port Galway was exploited unsuccessfully.

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  • Greifenberg possessed municipal rights as early as 1262, and in the 14th and 15th centuries had a considerable shipping trade, but it lost much of its prosperity during the Thirty Years' War.

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  • It is employed in shipping of all kinds; some of the strongest plants are selected for masts of boats of moderate size, and the masts of larger vessels are sometimes formed by the union of several bamboos built up and joined together.

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  • As the powers and duties of consuls vary with the particular commercial interests they have to protect, and the civilization of the state in whose territory they reside, instead of abstract definition, we summarize the provisions on this subject of the British Merchant Shipping Acts.

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  • Much of the notarial business which is imposed on consuls, partly by statute and partly by the request of private parties, consists in taking the declarations as to registry, transfers, &c., under the Mercantile Shipping Acts.

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  • The South Dock, begun in 1847 under powers obtained that year by a private company, transferred in 1857 to the harbour trustees and opened in 1859, is mainly used for shipping coal and for discharging timber and fish.

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  • Cromwell in his charter of 1655 recognized Swansea as "an ancient port town and populous, situate on the sea coast towards France convenient for shipping and resisting foreign invasions."

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  • Of the 133,000 tons of shipping which in 1905 entered the port 104,500 were British.

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  • The Greeks, who had concentrated the bulk of their forces in roadless Epirus for the siege of Yannina, lost no time in getting them down to the coast and shipping them to Salonika.

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  • The Pennsylvania railway has repair shops here, and among Columbia's manufactures are silk goods, embroidery and laces, iron and steel pipe, engines, laundry machinery, brushes, stoves, iron toys, umbrellas, flour, lumber and wagons; the city is also a busy shipping and trading centre.

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  • These commercial varieties differ in appearance and quality, and are roughly classified as Soft or Shipping opium, Druggists' and Manufacturers' opium.

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  • Shipping opium is distinguished by its soft character and clean paste, containing very little debris, or chaff, as it is technically called.

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  • The chief markets for the soft or shipping varieties of opium are, China, Korea, the West Indian Islands, Cuba, British Guiana, Japan and Java; the United States also purchase for re-exportation as well as for home consumption.

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  • Archaic terracottas show it to have been inhabited in the 6th century B.C., but it is first heard of in history as resisting the attacks of Satyrus, ruler of the Cimmerian Bosporus, c. 390 B.C. His successor Leucon took it and made it a great port for shipping wheat to Greece, especially to Athens.

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  • The town has a deep and well-protected harbour, and its shipping is extensive.

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  • The port of Calcutta is one of the busiest in the world, and the banks of the Hugli rival the port of London in their show of shipping.

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  • The commerce and shipping of Schleswig-Holstein, stimulated by its position between two seas, as well as by its excellent harbours and waterways, are much more prominent than its manufactures.

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  • The American War of Independence suspended progress for a brief interval, but revival set in in 1783, and within the following seven years shipping trebled in amount.

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  • The shipping at Bilbao is mainly Spanish, owing to the multitude of small vessels employed in the coasting trade; but from 1880 onwards the majority of foreign ships were British.

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  • The embargo and non-intercourse laws from 1807 to 1812 were a severe blow to Maine's shipping, and in the War of 1812 Eastport, Castine, Hampden, Bangor and Machias fell into the hands of the British.

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  • As with the trade the largest share of the shipping is Belgian, but it is under 50% of the whole tonnage.

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  • Its inhabitants, many of them Jews, live mainly by shipping goods on the Styr.

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  • On the Canadian side Fort William, in the mouth of the Kaministikwia, and Port Arthur, four miles distant, an artificial harbour, are the only important shipping points, being the lake terminals of three great transcontinental railway systems, though the whole north shore is liberally supplied with natural harbours.

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  • An inner arm ran nearly east from the island and terminated in a masonry head and fort, and an outer detached arm bent to the north and terminated in a circular fort, a narrow entrance for shipping being left between the two.

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  • Of the 255,000 tons of shipping which in 1905 entered Bander Abbasi 237,000 were British.

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  • The Harbour Trust, constituted in 1897, improved the shipping accommodation, and vessels of 300 tons approach close to the town.

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  • The excellent harbour, and the fact that Bellingham is nearer to the great markets of Alaska than any other city in the states, make the port an important shipping centre.

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  • Opon is a shipping and commercial suburb of Cebu city, the harbour of which is sheltered by Mactan Island.

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  • With the rise of Milford, however, the shipping trade greatly declined, and Haverfordwest has now the appearance of a quiet country town.

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  • Apart from damage to shipping and buildings, the low-lying lands along the coast were completely submerged, and in many villages half the inhabitants were drowned.

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  • The accommodation for shipping includes two graving docks, two patent slips, &c. The entrance to the river is protected by two breakwaters named respectively the North Gare and South Gare.

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  • The river is navigable to Tuguegarao for vessels of light draught; the Cagayan Valley is the great tobaccoproducing region of the Philippines; and Tuguegarao is an important shipping point for tobacco.

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  • The population of K`iung-chow, including its shipping port of Hoi-how, is estimated at 52,000.

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  • A commercial treaty signed between the two countries on the same day provided that each should allow the other the most favoured nation treatment, while each gave up the claim to the indiscriminate seizure of shipping which had been practised during the war.

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  • C. Rives in 1831, by which France had bound herself to pay an indemnity of twenty-five millions of francs for French spoliations of American shipping chiefly under the Berlin and Milan decrees, and the United States in turn agreed to pay to France 1,500,000 francs in satisfaction of French claims. Livingston's negotiations were conducted with excellent judgment, but the French Chamber of Deputies refused to make an appropriation to pay the first instalment due under the treaty in 1833, relations between the two governments became strained, and Livingston was finally instructed to close the legation and return to America.

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  • At least twice (in 1313 and 1410) its shipping was burned by the English, who also sacked the town in 1544 - when the 1st earl of Hertford destroyed the first wooden pier - and 1547.

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  • The coast is rock-bound and difficult of access; and though it contains several bays forming fairweather ports for vessels engaged in the coasting trade, Bombay, Karachi-in-Sind, Marmagoa and Karwar alone have harbours sufficiently land-locked to protect shipping during the prevalence of the south-west monsoon.

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  • The worst storms occur in autumn, when the immense quantity of shipping on the lake makes them specially destructive.

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  • It receives practically all the Lake Erie grain shipments besides large quantities of iron ore, lumber and copper, and is a large shipping port for coal, principally anthracite.

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  • The proximity of coal-mines, the abundance and variety of food supplies furnished by the state, the great quantity and variety of the city's manufactured goods, the excellent shipping facilities, and the consequent low cost of living, are prominent features of the physical life of the city.

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  • The city early became an important shipping centre; during both the War of Independence and the War of 1812 many privateers were sent out from it, and in the interval between these wars, the ship-owners of Baltimore had their share in the world's carrying trade, the ” Baltimore clippers " becoming famous.

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  • FortDodgeis a market for the products of the surrounding country, and is a shipping centre of considerable importance.

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  • Bellaire is the shipping centre of the Belmont county coalfield which in 1907 produced 1 9.3% of the total output of coal for the state.

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  • The facilities given for shipping wool direct to England from this port have caused a very extensive wool-broking trade to grow up in the town.

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  • Salt Lake City is the great business centre of Utah and one of the main shipping points of the West for agricultural products, live stock (especially sheep), precious metals and coal; and the excellent railway facilities contribute greatly to the commercial importance of the city.

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  • In his eagerness to collect the sinews of war he had issued orders for the levy of a heavy customs duty on wool, the main export of the land, and in some cases laid hands on the wool itself, which lay ready for shipping, though this had not been granted him by the late parliament.

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  • The seaports soon recovered from their losses in the Black Death, and English shipping was beginning to appear in the distant seas of Portugal and the Baltic. Nothing illustrates the growth of English wealth better than the fact that the kingdom had, till the time of Edward IlL, contrived to conduct all its commerce with a currency of small silver, but that within thirty years of his introduction of a gold coinage in 1343, the English noble was being struck in enormous quantities.

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  • The famous William Canynges, the patriarch of Bristol merchants, possessed 2500 tons of shipping, I including some ships of 900 tons, and traded in every sea.

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  • Nearly all the Baltic goods, and most of those from Denmark and Norway, had been reaching London or Hull in foreign bottoms. Henry allied himself with John of Denmark, who was chafing under the monopoly of the Hansa, and obtained the most ample grants of free trade in his realms. The Germans murmured, but the English shipping in eastern and northern waters continued to multiply.

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  • The term of office of the latter was marked by the first tentative efforts to modify the high protective system by which British trade was hampered, especially by the Reciprocity of Duties Act (1823), a modification of the Navigation Acts, by which British and foreign shipping were placed on an equal footing, while the right to impose restrictive duties on ships of powers refusing to reciprocate was retained.

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  • He offered to relieve the shipping interest by transferring some of the cost of lighting the coasts to the Consolidated Fund; the West Indja interest by sanctioning the refining of sugar in bond; and the landed classes by reducing the malt tax by one-half, and by repealing the old war duty on hops.

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  • Shipping is controlled by a harbour board (1880).

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  • It is in a tobacco-growing region, is one of the largest hardwood lumber markets in the country, and has an important shipping trade in pork, agricultural products, dried fruits, lime and limestone, flour and tobacco.

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  • The return freight movement to the Wisconsin lake ports is made up chiefly of coal from the Lake Erie shipping points for the coalfields of Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

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  • Red Wing is an important wheat market and shipping point.

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  • The harbour being accessible only at high water, and then merely to vessels of small tonnage, the shipping trade is inconsiderable.

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  • Built in part upon "made land," well protected by levees, and lying within the richest cottonproducing region of the south, the rich timber country of the St Francis river, and the Mississippi "bottom lands," Helena concentrates its economic interests in cotton-compressing and shipping, the manufacture of cotton-seed products, lumbering and wood-working.

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  • The shipping visiting the port of Constantinople during the year 1905, excluding sailing and small coasting vessels, was 9796, representing a total of 14,785,080 tons.

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  • To alarm the British force at Philadelphia the Americans floated kegs charged with gunpowder down the Delaware river towards that city, and the British, alarmed for the safety of their shipping, fired with cannon and small arms at everything they saw floating in the river.

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  • Besides these, there are the harbour of the principal shipping company - the Russian Company for Navigation and Commerce, and the petroleum harbour.

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  • The leading occupations are connected with exporting, shipping and manufactures.

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  • The establishment of large engine works by the Great Western railway has aided the development of local industries, and there is a considerable shipping trade, fine china clay and pipeclay being worked near the towns and exported to the Potteries.

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  • The village is a shipping point for an agricultural and manufacturing district.

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  • Colonel William Preston, county surveyor of Fincastle county, within which the 2000-acre tract lay, refused to approve Captain Bullitt's survey, and had the lands resurveyed in the following year, nevertheless the tract was conveyed in December 1773 by Lord Dunmore to his friend Dr John Connolly, a native of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, who had served in the British army, as commander of Fort Pitt (under Dunmore's appointment), was an instigator of Indian troubles which culminated in the Battle of Point Pleasant, and was imprisoned from 1775 until nearly the close of the War of American Independence for attempting under Dunmore's instructions to organize the "Loyal Foresters," who 1 Louisville cement, one of the best-known varieties of natural cement, was first manufactured in Shipping Port, a suburb of Louisville, in 1829 for the construction of the Louisville & Portland Canal; the name is now applied to all cement made in the Louisville District in Kentucky and Indiana.

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  • This is exclusive of banks, shipping and insurance companies, and other institutions which draw profits from other places besides Shanghai.

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  • He was appointed a commissioner of the U.S. Shipping Board, and a member of the U.S. Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp. 1917-9.

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  • In 1854 he carried, almost without opposition, a most important and complicated act consolidating all existing shipping laws, but in 1855 resigned, with his Peelite colleagues, upon the appointment of Mr Roebuck's Sevastopol inquiry committee, declining the offer of the chancellorship. of the Exchequer pressed upon him by Lord Palmerston.

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  • On account of its proximity to the fertile Betuwe district and its situation near the confluence of the Rhine and Ysel, the markets and shipping of Arnhem are in a flourishing condition.

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  • In 1825 the shipping duties on the cross-Channel trade were abolished and since that date no official figures are available as to a large part of Irish trade with Great Britain.

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  • Shipping returns also throw some light upon the commercial condition of Ireland.

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  • Commercial equality being given to Ireland, the woollen trade at once revived, and a shipping interest sprang up. A legislative union was also effected, and Irish members attended at Westminster.

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  • A revenue of L30,000 was settled on the king, in consideration of which Ireland was in 166 3 excluded from the benefit of the Navigation Act, and her nascent shipping interest ruined.

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  • The shipping trade is chiefly British; French and German tonnage coming next.

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  • Its broad unpaved streets and one-storey houses built in the Dutch style give it an almost rustic appearance, although its industries, beyond some fishing, are entirely connected with its shipping.

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  • Rome is situated in a rich agricultural region producing cotton, cereals, vegetables and fruits, for which it is a trading centre, and is a shipping point for bauxite, mined in the vicinity.

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  • There are also chemical works, and some shipping trade, principally in timber and fish.

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  • Shipping and Narigation.Spain has 21 seaboard provinces, with more than 120 ports of some importance.

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  • On the other hand the shipping and the industry of Spain increased greatly.

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  • Another bill which he had much at heart, on merchant shipping, had to be abandoned, and a royal commission substituted, but the subsequent legislation in1888-1894owed much to his efforts.

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  • Jackson is an important cotton market, and is a shipping point for the farm products and fruits of the surrounding country.

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  • There is here a denser population, occupied in the cultivation of wheat, beetroot and fruit, the breeding of excellent cattle, shipping and industrial pursuits.

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  • It was formerly the principal port for the state and for a part of Yucatan, but the port of Carmen at the entrance to Laguna de Terminos is now the chief shipping port for logwood and other forest products, and a considerable part of the trade of Campeche has been transferred to Progreso, the port of Merida.

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  • It is the centre of an active shipping trade with the Baltic ports and with England, and of a railway system connecting it with all parts of the grand duchy and with St Petersburg.

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  • Detroit's location gives to the city's shipping and shipbuilding interests a high importance.

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  • It is the capital of Kootenay county, and the shipping centre for the mining and lumbering district.

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  • The new harbour, which was opened to navigation in December 1901, allows the direct transhipment of all merchandise whatever may be the direction of the wind, which was previously apt to render shipping operations difficult.

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  • The discovery of the New World, and the opening out of fresh trading routes to the Indies, gave an extraordinary impulse to shipping, commerce and industrial enterprise throughout western Europe.

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  • The chief ports of the state are Hobart, where the shipping entered in 1905 amounted to 645,000 tons, and Launceston, 223,000 tons;.

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  • There is an active shipping trade with Melbourne in maize and other grain, hops, fruit and dairy produce.

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  • With flat and shelving shores, the shoal-banks off the main mouths of the delta form the chief danger to shipping, and this is guarded against by a good service of lighthouses and lightships.

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  • For a length of seven or eight miles the river is from a mile to a mile and a quarter in breadth, so that there is plenty of accommodation for shipping.

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  • It is a shipping point; the Standard Oil Company has a large refinery here, and among its manufactures are asphaltum for street paving, linoleum and men's garments.

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  • To absolve a company of blame for shipping bogus code is wrong.

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  • The callous attitude of the shipping company would sound like sheer mockery to my countrymen.

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  • I made adjustments to the cart were we charge 6 euro's for shipping for any order above 80 euro's ex VAT.

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  • Shipping litigation covers all areas including admiralty, charterparty disputes, cargo claims, sale and purchase disputes and total losses.

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  • The amphibious Ready Group is normally based around specialist amphibious shipping, most notably HMS OCEAN, the largest ship in the fleet.

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  • I did manage to get a nice cape from Ebay but seemingly they are not shipping feathers across the pond anymore.

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  • More than 5 million shipping containers, 2 million rail cars and some 11 million trucks go into the US every year.

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  • Such losses seem disproportionate to an attack on merchant shipping not engaged in vital supply work.

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  • There was a certain amount of shipping in the harbor, all flying the white ensign.

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  • Shopping rather than shipping may now be the prevailing ethos, but the rich legacy of previous generations and their labors endures.

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  • Banff Strike Wing Memorial Mosquito from Banff attacking shipping in Norwegian fiord, Spring 1945 Gp.

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  • Pirates in North Africa continually harass European shipping in Mediterranean.

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  • In his younger days the Admiral had seen service in the China Seas where two powerful pirate fleets wrought havoc among shipping.

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  • The shipping charge is based on a pallet weight of 200 kg within mainland Great Britain but excluding the highlands of Scotland.

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  • The Skyros Shipping Company runs an all-year ferry operated by the islanders themselves.

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  • Kent beaches suffer from all the usual form of litter but the area is also a major shipping lane.

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  • There is price promise, free shipping on orders over £ 30, free gifts over £ 35 and free lube over £ 75.

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  • That his father is a shipping magnate is again glossed over... .

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  • However, a shipping magnate has stepped in with a rival offer $ 4 million above Abbey's bid.

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  • In our opinion, Young's most recent masterwork is undoubtedly " The Shipping News " which won him a Golden Globe nomination.

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  • Mayday relay message was also broadcast to all shipping.

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  • However, for shipping safety reasons we must supply the bike with the front wheel & front mudguard removed.

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  • From china shipping still gleaming from to their natural namesakes my sister so.

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  • You can edit the shipping information and shipping status by clicking a link next to the item information.

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  • More important, the vital shipping lane into London became infinitely less perilous.

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  • The town developed into a thriving port during the 18th century when the main activity was the shipping of locally produced coal.

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  • Len Paterson is the author of several books on shipping themes, most notably the Scottish puffer (Light in the Glens ).

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  • Simply add the items you want, select the most appropriate shipping method, then click recalculate.

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  • Annual reefer shipping Market Review and Forecast 2006/07 Drewry's latest Reefer Shipping Annual has reviewed prospects for the reefer shipping industry.

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  • Following the recent postal pricing restructure, it has been necessary to review our shipping costs.

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  • Later in the same year she was transferred to Calm Isle Shipping Ltd of Hong Kong and her name reverted to Oriental Merchant.

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  • There is a good roadstead, much frequented by the Glasgow and other shipping sailing along the river and Frith of Clyde.

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  • No wonder this town's remained such a backwater - the shipping hub of Port Hedland is almost 400 miles away through desert scrubland.

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  • This Association draws its members from the British shipping community including shipowners, insurers, insurance brokers and maritime lawyers.

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  • Furness was a local shipowner, with a string of businesses related to shipping.

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  • Its purpose is to protect containerized shipping from exploitation by terrorists.

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  • By adding a weight field to your products table, you could easily calculate shipping based on an algorithm.

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  • It was quiet beside the sea played here than america Mediterranean shipping.

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  • Success was quickly achieved, with 85,000 tons of allied shipping being sunk in March 1915 alone.

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  • There continues to be strong support in the Study Area for coastal shipping to play a larger role in the overall transport strategy.

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  • Brown started his career in merchant shipping, working his way up the ranks.

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  • It worked, bought the price down to £ 23.60 or something inc shipping.

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  • The object of the operation was to attack enemy shipping in the area between Sogne Fjord and the Grip Light off the Norwegian coast.

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  • Based on volumes they are shipping, this can be a profitable sideline for them.

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  • During this period she appeared in the short lived shipping soap opera " Triangle " .

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  • Numerous reconnaissance sorties were flown over the Aegean to track enemy shipping.

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  • In 1981, the Olympia was bought by Sally Shipping and refitted, with diesels replacing the steam turbines.

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  • The shipping registry has been very successful for larger vessels.

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  • To keep things simple and because we have n't sussed out how to do complicated shipping charges, the prices include P&P.

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  • Real, ripe tomatoes are easily damaged in shipping.

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  • About once a month Mr Hugo would come to the part time typist with a shipping list.

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  • Free Shipping on orders over $ 75... used in cabinet making, furniture making, millwork and general woodworking.

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  • Get it here for only $ 33 plus FREE shipping worldwide Bishop of Antioch.

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  • It includes references to some Cardiff shipping, the Merthyr Riots and the Bute v John Wood political wrangles, among other things.

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  • Two brothers, Abijah and John Smith, originally of Derby, Conn., settled in Plymouth in 1806 and began shipping coal thence in 1808; this was the beginning of the anthracite coal trade in the United States.

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  • The trade is chiefly confined to the shipping of grain, fish, coal, malt and timber, with some cattle and wool, and to the import of coal and tar, but of late years it has declined, despite excellent wharf accommodation and a considerable depth of water (12-15 ft.).

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  • The consolidation of interests which resulted, and which has been developed by the addition in 1884 of seven other British directors, chosen from among shipping merchants and business men, has augmented, for the benefit of all concerned, the commercial character of the enterprise.

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  • In the early part of the 17th century the town had fallen into decay, but it speedily recovered, and in 17 4 4 could contribute twenty vessels to the Newfoundland shipping trade.

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  • Rarely affected by a cyclone, though within the influence of practically every one that blows in the Bay of Bengal, the Andamans are of the greatest importance because of the accurate information relating to the direction and intensity of storms which can be communicated from them better than from any other point in the bay, to the vast amount of shipping in this part of the Indian Ocean.

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  • During this period many immigrant labourers settled here; for the ironworks and dynamite factory of Baracaldo prospered greatly, owing to the increased output of the Biscayan mines, the extension of railways in the neighbourhood, and the growth of shipping at Bilbao.

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  • Lymington was made a port in the reign of Henry I., and its large shipping trade led to frequent disputes with Southampton as to the levying of duties.

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  • Phillimore, whose tenure of office covered the whole period of the queen's reign till the creation of the High Court of Justice, the valuable assistance rendered by the nautical assessors from the Trinity House, the great increase of shipping, especially of steam shipping, and the number and gravity of cases of collision, salvage and damage to cargo, restored the activity of the court and made it one of the most important tribunals of the country.

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  • This may have been due in great part to the fact that the shipping and trade of Greenland became a monopoly of the king of Norway, who kept only one ship sailing at long intervals (of years) to Greenland; at the same time the shipping and trade of Norway came more and more in the hands of the Hanseatic League, which took no interest in Greenland.

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  • The charm of the Thames is indeed maintained throughout its course; the view of the rich valley from Richmond Hill, of the outskirts of London, is celebrated; the river is practically the only physical attribute to the beauty of the metropolis itself, and the estuary, with its burden of shipping and its industrial activity, is no less admirable.

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  • Its two foremost leaders were Doctor Trumbic and Mr. Supilo (two of the makers of the Resolution of Fiume) and it also included Doctor Hinkovic (known as the chief advocate in the Zagreb treason trial), Ivan Mestrovic the sculptor, the Slovene deputies Gregorin and Trinajstic, the Bosnian Serb deputies Stojanovic, SrSkic and Vasiljevic, publicists of repute such as Marjanovic and Banjanin, and prominent representatives of the Yugoslav colonies in North and South America, such as the scientist Pupin and the shipping magnate Baburica.

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  • A new Small Holdings Act (1907) for England was passed; the Trades Disputes Act (1906) removed the position of trades unions from the controversy excited over the Taff Vale decision; Mr LloydGeorge's Patents Act (1907) and Merchant Shipping Act (1906) were welcomed by the tariff reformers as embodying their own policy; a long-standing debate was closed by the passing of the Deceased Wife's Sister Act (1907); and acts for establishing a public trustee, a court of criminal appeal, a system of probation for juvenile offenders, and a census of production, were passed in 1907.

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  • Königswinter has a Roman Catholic and an Evangelical church, some small manufactures and a little shipping.

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  • This wind has been a constant menace to shipping at anchor; the new breakwater on the Monarch Shoal was designed to resist its ravages.

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  • The imports are cotton goods, flour, hardware, coal, sugar, tea, coffee, &c. The figures of trade and shipping are included in those of the trade of the regency (see Tunisia), of which Tunis and Goletta take about a third.

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  • Where a consul suspects that the shipping or navigation laws are being evaded, he may require the owner or master to produce the log-book or other ship documents (such as the agreement with the seamen, the account of the crew, the certificate of registration); he may muster the crew, and order explanations with regard to the documents.

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  • The harbour, with the ceaseless activity of shipping, its calm waters, sheltered by many islands, and its well-wooded shores studded with pleasant watering-places, affords a series of charming views, apart from its claim to be considered one of the finest natural harbours in the kingdom.

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  • Sitka, Juneau (the capital) and Douglas, both centres of a rich mining district, Skagway, shipping point for freight for the Klondike country (see these titles), and St Michael, the ocean port for freighting up the Yukon, are the only towns apparently assured of a prosperous future.

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  • Click on " GO TO PAYMENTS " once you have recalculated the shipping charges.

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  • Simply add the items you want, select the most appropriate shipping method, then click Recalculate.

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  • Annual Reefer Shipping Market Review and Forecast 2006/07 Drewry 's latest Reefer Shipping Annual has reviewed prospects for the reefer shipping industry.

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  • And scaloppine veal us discounts on shipping norwegian orient.

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  • No wonder this town 's remained such a backwater - the shipping hub of Port Hedland is almost 400 miles away through desert scrubland.

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  • We set off in sunshine along an old railroad track that was built to take the Portland stone to the coast for shipping out.

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  • It was quiet beside the sea played here than america mediterranean shipping.

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  • Success was quickly achieved, with 85,000 tons of Allied shipping being sunk in March 1915 alone.

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  • In 1964 she was sold to the Greek shipping magnate Achille Lauro, who renamed her ' Angelina Lauro '.

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  • The desktops had all their data removed and then were loaded into a shipping container, destined for Tanzania in Eastern Africa.

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  • The passage is at right angles to the shipping lane.

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  • The shipping forecast is saying, Sole NW 2 to 3, backing SW later.

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  • Delivery All overseas orders are sent via air-mail, insured against damage and theft and are packed in sturdy shipping cartons.

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  • Original shipping charges are not refunded on returned items.

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  • Regular shipping services may also apply to use the CT sea simplified procedure.

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  • The sailors looked to me gross and slovenly men, and the shipping struck me as clumsy, ugly, old, and dirty.

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  • During this period she appeared in the short lived shipping soap opera " Triangle ".

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  • Her main purpose was to launch smaller torpedo boats against enemy shipping.

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  • The collections comprise objects from all over Wales but there is a leaning toward Cardiff 's once-extensive tramp shipping industry.

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  • After trimming the wing panels they are then checked with a vertical vernier gage to confirm accuracy before shipping to you the customer.

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  • All our unique retirement gifts are available with next day UK delivery and fast worldwide shipping.

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  • Xi Graphics will pay the cost of shipping only, including international shipping.

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  • You may pay an extra fee to expedite the shipping process.

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  • Their costs of manufacture and shipping are low, and they also up-sell you to fancier blades, resulting in even more profit.

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  • Shipping is always free from this shop, and returns are gracefully accepted.

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  • Look for the red text designating free shipping on many of the company's products.

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  • Be sure you factor in shipping charges before you price the item, however.

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  • Don't forget to factor in the shipping costs before you bid!

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  • Sometimes free shipping on one item will actually make it a better deal than a crib that is cheaper but has high shipping costs.

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  • If you don't like crib, will you have to pay shipping to send it back?

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  • If you are ordering online, take shipping costs into account as well as the online store's return policy.

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  • You may be able to get free shipping or substantial discounts for one or more items.

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  • What will be shipping and handling costs be?

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  • Be sure you check out the company's policies on authenticity, guaranteed craftsmanship, shipping and handling, and returns.

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  • Be sure you pay attention to the online store's shipping and handling charges and return policy before you order!

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  • Timetable-Be sure you find out the company's timetable in regards to ordering, proofing, printing, and shipping.

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  • Most companies also offer express shipping options.

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  • To make the most of your shopping dollars, check on shipping and handling charges before you submit your order.

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  • Make sure the gown is the right size, and include shipping prices into your budget.

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  • Be sure you factor in the cost of shipping before you place your bid.

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  • Before you order, check out each site's shipping and handling charges and return policy.

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  • Be sure you check the shipping details, including shipping and handling prices, estimated shipping times, etc. before you order.

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  • These sites may also offer sales or purchasing incentives, such as free shipping.

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  • Before you buy, make sure the site is secure, and check out the store's return policy and shipping and handling charges.

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  • Be sure you read the fine print and find out how long the shipping will take.

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  • As you shop, however, take the shipping and handling price into account as well.

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  • When ordering online, check out the simple shipping and handling procedure.

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  • At the Beatrix Potter Shop (located in the UK but fulfilling Web orders online with reasonable international shipping costs), you can find adorable Beatrix Potter curtains.

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  • In such cases, if you can afford to wait out the shipping time, Internet shopping can be vastly superior to an in-store purchase.

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  • If you order online, however, be sure the site is secure before ordering and check the site's returns, shipping and handling policies.

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  • While some websites offer a discount for purchases over a certain minimum order amount, others offer free shipping and free accessories.

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  • Check the site for current brands and discount cloth diapers, and take advantage of free shipping over $75 and a free gift over $100.

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  • Leading Lady won't refund the original shipping fees for items you return unless they have made an error in shipping.

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  • Be sure you pay attention to the shipping, handling, and return policies for each site.

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  • If you are ordering online, be sure and check out the shipping and handling section, particularly in regards to the amount of time it takes to receive the sign after you place your order.

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  • Add extras like candy or stuffed animals if you'd like, but always be careful to pay attention to shipping costs and the available delivery date.

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  • If you are in doubt it is a good idea to check with the couple to see what the shipping address is.

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  • Add a 3 x 5 inch index card with the shipping and return address clearly written on it.

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  • Place this in the shipping box just before you seal it up.

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  • Instead of a single slab that can easily fracture during shipping, most tables are made of three oversized slabs fitted together with a wood backing glued to one side.

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  • You will save money on shipping but more importantly you will have the chance to see the actual chair.

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  • Remember that when you purchase items from the Internet you will have to pay shipping, which can add quite a lot to the price.

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  • Remember to look carefully at the shipping costs because sinks can be heavy and the costs can add up quickly, taking you well over what you had planned to spend.

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  • You can get free shipping on all orders over $100.

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  • Make sure to provide your vendor with an address where someone will be present to accept the steak from the shipper, and be sure to ask which shipping vendor they use.

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  • If you work in an office, have the steak delivered there, so the steaks won't be left unattended on your porch where neighborhood Fido's can get to it or sitting in a shipping truck.

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  • Online shopping can be risky because screens, especially CRTs, are vulnerable to shipping mishaps.

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  • This BizRate customer certified store has most of their products available at sale prices, and you can get fee shipping for orders over $100.

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  • You'll get free UPS shipping and no sales tax on all purchases over $40!

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  • Internet deals are sometimes cheaper, but shipping a television subjects it to shipping damage.

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  • If the store offers free shipping both ways, no late fees and no return dates on rentals, then you've found a good store!

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  • For example, there could be a rental plan where you pay $15 per month for unlimited DVD rentals with free shipping, or a plan where you pay $10 a month for eight DVD rentals a month and free shipping.

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  • They offer free shipping on all orders, weekly rentals at low prices and no monthly subscriptions!

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  • You'll find free shipping for orders over $50, plus you can shop online or by phone.

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  • Shipping services are essential to small business, households and individuals.

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  • Providers offer domestic or international shipping.

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  • Most shipping services can be arranged online, saving the time and inconvenience of waiting in lines.

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  • A good shipping services provider will offer a large number of pick-up and drop-off centers.

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  • Others offer low shipping costs but add pick-up charges, or maintain centers located far away.

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  • With domestic shipping, a local United States Postal Service branch will be your best bet.

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  • They offer a wide range of specialized services for letters and parcels USPS Shipping Guidelines.

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  • Other shipping service providers offer similar services at different price structures.

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  • One way to determine the best service for you if you regularly ship similarly-weighted packages or parcels is do rate comparisons and factor in convenience of local shipping centers or pickup services.

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  • Some shipping services providers are cheaper when shipping from specific store-front or pickup locations from your hometown because they have shipping centers located in your destination city.

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  • You can often find discounts on shipping when buying over a certain pre-set amount.

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  • You may have to pay for shipping though.

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  • One Web site, ecampus.com, throws in shipping for free if you spend $49 or more.

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  • Online print shops such as VistaPrint offers a variety of printing options and are offered for "free" while you pay shipping.

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