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5740. NAVIGATION, Reduction of British.—[continued].

The navigation act, if
it can be effected, will form a remarkable
and memorable epoch in the history and freedom
of the ocean. Mr. Short will press it
at Paris, and Colonel Humphreys at Lisbon.—
To William Carmichael. Washington ed. iii, 245.
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