CONTENTS

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I. In the Beginning[1]
II.Early Growth[22]
III.Evolution of the Smuggler and the Pirate[40]
IV.Before the War of the Revolution[59]
V.Merchantmen in Battle Array[85]
VI.Early Enterprise of the United States Merchant Marine[100]
VII.French and Other Spoliations[119]
VIII.The British Aggressions[132]
IX.The Beginnings of Steam Navigation[150]
X.Privateers, Pirates, and Slavers of the Nineteenth Century[177]
XI.The Harvest of the Sea before the Civil War[197]
XII.The Packet Lines and the Clippers[214]
XIII.Deep-water Steamships—Part I[240]
XIV.Deep-water Steamships—Part II[258]
XV.The Critical Period[277]
XVI.During a Half Century of Depression[298]