Willis J. Abbot

Capitolo 8

considerable number of art and men. Three thousand miles ocean
Americans separated by the market in which they has to sell their production
and he/she buys their luxuries. Immediately on the setup of the coast
the Farmers themselves took on this work, while building and equipping them
own vases and quickly making their way in every nook and angle of
Europe. Us that we have seen in the last quarter of the nineteenth century,
the American flag the rarest of all the insignias to be met him on the water, owes
you concern with equal admiration and wonders the zeal for maritime adventure
that manufactured the second the childish nation of 1800 people of sea in point
of number of vases and second to anybody in energy and enterprise.

[The illustration: You Shallop]

England New assumed the direction him in building ships and to equip soon them, and
this was but natural since its coasts abounded in harbors;  navigable
brooks crossed forests of trees appropriated for the ax of the ship-builder;  his/her
ground was hard and obstinate to the efforts of the grower;  and his/her people they had
as those that established the South, deduce not, from the agricultural one
classes. Besides, as I will show in the other chapters, the same sea
you thrust on the New Englanders his/her wealth for them to gather. The
codfish-fishing was undertaken from very inside some miles of Head Ann and the New one
Englanders had been gotten used well to him in front of the increasing shortage of
the fish forced them to look for the waters that abound some banks of Newfoundland.
The value of the whale was taught them by the great carcasses washed on before
on the beach of Head Codfish, and for years this gigantic game was undertaken in
open boats inside sight of the coast. From district of sea as
this the progress was easy to coastal trips, and so to Europe and to
Asia.

There is some conflict of historians on the time and place of the
starting of ship-building in America. The first vase of which we have
record was her/it "Virginia", integrated to the mouth of the River of Kennebec