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... port in registered marine , with a tonnage of kll , 410 . Other ports were far behind these two leaders in registered tonnage . New Bedford had registered vessels of 141,359 tons . About 128,000 of these were in the whale fisheries ...
... port in registered marine , with a tonnage of kll , 410 . Other ports were far behind these two leaders in registered tonnage . New Bedford had registered vessels of 141,359 tons . About 128,000 of these were in the whale fisheries ...
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... port . Two were coming from Calcutta , one from Sagua la Grande , and one from a port in Brasil . Eight of the Boston vessels cleared from New York for foreign or domestic ports . One cleared for the Madeira Islands , one for Gibralter ...
... port . Two were coming from Calcutta , one from Sagua la Grande , and one from a port in Brasil . Eight of the Boston vessels cleared from New York for foreign or domestic ports . One cleared for the Madeira Islands , one for Gibralter ...
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... ports were lake cities : Chicago and Buffalo , both of which showed gains in tonnage in the period . Pittsburgh was the final port with more than 100,000 tons ; in 1865 it claimed 129,742 , indicating its importance as the ma- jor river ...
... ports were lake cities : Chicago and Buffalo , both of which showed gains in tonnage in the period . Pittsburgh was the final port with more than 100,000 tons ; in 1865 it claimed 129,742 , indicating its importance as the ma- jor river ...
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