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History of merchant shipping and ancient commerce, Volume 1 (of 4)

Note 542 — Chapter XII

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A French law, so late as Aug. 22, 1790, sent a pilot to the galleys for three years who accidentally lost his vessel; and sentenced him to death if he did so wilfully.—Pardessus, p. 341.

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