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... ship's salt beef , as it is often good . You will find cider the best quencher of that thirst which salt meat or fish occasions . The ship biscuit is too hard for some sets of teeth . It may be softened by toasting . But rusk is better ...
... ship's salt beef , as it is often good . You will find cider the best quencher of that thirst which salt meat or fish occasions . The ship biscuit is too hard for some sets of teeth . It may be softened by toasting . But rusk is better ...
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Benjamin Franklin. sufficient for one person only ; for then when the ship should make a sudden heel , the soup would ... ships , tobacco almost as many . For the utility of tobacco there is little to be said ; and for that of sugar , how ...
Benjamin Franklin. sufficient for one person only ; for then when the ship should make a sudden heel , the soup would ... ships , tobacco almost as many . For the utility of tobacco there is little to be said ; and for that of sugar , how ...
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... ships for the circuitous trade that was finally to procure the necessary re- mittances ; the seas covered with those ships , and with several hundred sail of our fishermen , all work- ing for Britain ; and then let us consider what ...
... ships for the circuitous trade that was finally to procure the necessary re- mittances ; the seas covered with those ships , and with several hundred sail of our fishermen , all work- ing for Britain ; and then let us consider what ...
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On the criminal laws and the practice of privateering | 51 |
A dialogue between Great Britain France Spain | 107 |
The internal state of America being a true descrip | 121 |
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