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5737. NAVIGATION, Protuberant.—

I
trust the good sense of our country will see
that its greatest prosperity depends on a due
balance between agriculture, manufactures and
commerce, and not in this protuberant navigation
which has kept us in hot water from
the commencement of our government, and is
now engaging us in war.—
To Thomas Leiper. Washington ed. v, 417. Ford ed., ix, 239.
(W. 1809)