ILLUSTRATIONS
Reading edition
South Street, New York; from Maiden Lane, 1834 Frontispiece
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An Early View of Charleston Harbor 38
Captain Kidd's House at Pearl and Hanover Streets, New York, 1691 70
Custom House, Salem 100
Elias Hasket Derby 108
An Early Type of Clipper Ship: Maria, of New Bedford, built 1782 122
A Virginia Pilot-boat, with a Distant View of Cape Henry, at the Entrance of the Chesapeake 148
Engines of the Clermont 158
Clipper Ship Syren 220
Captain Samuel Samuels 222
Clipper Ship Witch of the Wave 232
Sailing of Britannia, February 3, 1844 254
Four-master Dirigo, First Steel Ship built in the United States 298
Seven-masted Schooner Thomas Lawson 312
A Modern Clipper Ship and a Modern Brig 318
Cunard S. S. Lusitania 334
THE STORY OF THE MERCHANT MARINE