Willis J. Abbot

Capitolo 15

to puff smoky instead of the songs of rhythmic chanty of the sailors. Then
the modern schooner, an a lot of leviathan to sail art the plows the seas,
electric-illuminated, governing from vapor a telephone system that connects everybody,
parts of his/her peel--all modern around her except his/her name. Not as
dignified, graced, and picturesque as the ship perhaps--but her hard,
while the ship disappears.

But to return to the colonial consignment. Boston became soon one of the
principal centers of building, although indeed wherever men were gathered in a
ships of village of beach were built. Winthrop, one of the pioneers in the
industry, writes:  "The job was hard to bring defeasible for lack of money,
etc., but our shipwrightses were happy to take such you pay as the country
to do", and indeed in the old account books of the day we can read of
very unusual payments constituted job, as shown, for example, in a contract
to build a ship to Newburyport in 1141 from what the owners were tied up
to pay "in cash L300, L300 from orders on good shops in Boston;  two-third
money;  four hundred pounds from orders on the river for tim'r and it covers, ten
bbls. you flour, the weight of 50 pounds of sugar of loaf, a bagg of cotton wool, one
hund. you are of corn in spring;  a hhd.  of Rum, one hundred weight
of cheese * * * whole am't of price for vase L3000 legal money."

Within 1642 they was building vases good-put in order of greatness to Boston and the year
following the first ship was launched completely equipped, her "Test" that it went
to Malaga, and he/she returned "wine, fruit, oil, flax and wool that were a
great advantage to the country, and it gave encouragement to deal." One year
first puts out there the modest precursor of our present wholesale
spring pilgrimages to Europe. A ship took the breadth for London from Boston "with
many passengers, men of principal line in the country and the great shop of
beaver. Their adventure was very great, in consideration of the piece of ground of doubtful ground of
business of England, but a lot of prayers of the churches went with them and