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Between 100 and 5 & 40 40 and 45 years ago I was acquainted
with a Ship Builder in London
whose business consisted more in repairing
than building Ships. This gave him occasion
to note the different numbers of men employed
in Merchant Ships of the different
Nations, on Ships of the same size, shape &
burden. He gave me a scale of the different
Nations. In In a Ship on which,
when manned by Englishmen, I forget whether
15 or no more than 13 hands were employed,
when manned by Spaniards 5 and 40 for an 45 hands
were employed. These were the extremeties
fo the scale. At present the United States
men surpass the English in Ship building.
My Brother, had he remained in Office
would as surely have made England
surpass them. The account given
me as above by the Ship builder, I am clear in
the recollection of. I sent it, at the time, as a

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings
Folio number	101	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	fragment	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham; richard doane	Watermarks	g p<…> 18<…>
Marginals		Paper Producer	elizabeth hitchen
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	4550
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