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MERCANTILE BIOGRAPHY.

Thomas Willet, the first Mayor of New York, by Alden Bradford..
The Good Merchant-William Parsons, by Rev. Alexander Young.
Thomas Hancock, by Alden Bradford.

Thomas Russell, by Alden Bradford....

Memoir of Matthew Carey, by E. Holden.

Notice of John Langdon, by Jacob B. Moore..

MERCANTILE LITERATURE.

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Commerce and Literature. Anniversary Poem, delivered before the Mercantile

Library Association of Boston, by James T. Fields...

Foot's Argument in favor of the General Banking Law.

MERCANTILE LAW.

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Cheating by False Pretences...

General Average..

Bills of Exchange-Rights of Corporations..

Case of Salvage for Services rendered by one Whaler to another..

TABLES OF COINS.

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Table of the principal Gold Coins of the Countries and States with which the Uni-

ted States have Commercial Intercourse..

Table of the principal Silver Coins of the Countries with which the United States
have Commercial Intercourse.

Value of Foreign Coins...

A Table of Gold Coins, their weight, assay, and present value.

MISCELLANEOUS STATISTICS.

Debts of the several States......

National Debts of England and other Countries..

Table of Distances on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers..
Statistics of the Press..

STATISTICS OF TRADE AND MANUFACTURES.

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Exports of British Produce, etc., from the United Kingdom.
Commerce and Navigation of the United States for 1838..
Tonnage, Crews, and National Character of Foreign Vessels
Commerce of each State and Territory for 1838.
Tonnage of the United States from 1815 to 1838

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Imports and Exports of Cotton into and from the United Kingdom
Commerce of the United States

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Statement of Tea exported into the United States, in 1838-9..
Statistics of Cotton.....

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Tobacco Crop...

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Commerce of Alabama, from 1818 to 1838..

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Comparative Statement of Exports of Cotton from the United States.

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Commerce with Brazil-Rio Janeiro...

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Exports of Silk from Georgia, from 1755 to 1773.

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Comparative Price of Wheat...

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Ratio of Specie in the Banks of Boston..

Statement of the Situation of the Banks in New Orleans, on Oct. 21st, 1839.

NAVIGATION.

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Liverpool Packets-A comparative Table of the Passages of the different Ships of

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Atlantic Steam Ship Great Western...

Trans-Atlantic Steam Ships Company's Ships Royal William and Liverpool.

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March of Steam

Patent Sheathing

Bethell's Patent Diving Apparatus..

New Light Houses on the French Coast

Notice to Mariners.

The British Queen, Liverpool, and Great Western.

Great Western and British Queen...

Loss of Steam Boats in the West in 1838.

Mississippi Steamboats..

Rates of Pilotage established by the Bahama Legislature...

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Passages of the Liverpool Packets..

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Circular of the United States Consul at St. Johns, P. R.
Bonded Ports of Mexico....

Commercial Treaty between Holland and the United States
Consulate General of the Brazilian Empire...

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Quarantine Laws of Havre

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Never talk of your Designs till they have been accomplished, and even then the less
you say the better.

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Do not, like a foolish Mariner, always calculate on fair Weather..

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Cash Purchases.....

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