Two Lectures Delivered Before the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce: Present State of the Longitude Question in Navigation (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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If ever there wasa time when attention to Trade and Manufactures was necessary, it is the present: at the end of an expensive war, with an enormous load of national debt, heavy taxes upon every article of life or convenience, and the treaties of commerce with Ireland, France, and America, unsettled.

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