Sea And Land Features of Coasts And Oceans With Special Reference to the Life
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During the last century this enlargement of vessels has gone forward with exceeding ra{)idity, so that at the present time the average tonnage of sea-eoine ships is at least fivefold as orreat as it was a hundred years ago. The maritime spirit of the different peoples that resort to the sea was developed and determined in the ages when vessels had not passed beyond the stage of boats of small size. Their first lessons in seamanship seem to have been acquired in tolerably sheltered waters where ...bays or islands favored tentative experiments in navigation. Wherever any of the shores of the Old World abound in inlets or are beset with islands, if the country was inhabited at an early day by people capable of advance in the ways of life, we al- FIRST CONDITION OF SHIPS 155 most invariabl)- find that the maritime spirit was developed in a measure (juite up to the progress in other arts. On the other hand, wherever the shore was not deeply embayed or fringed with islands the folk seem never to ha\c ac(piired the mariner's craft, how^ever far the\- have advanced in other constructive arts.
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