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7878. SHIPS, Purchase of foreign.—[continued].

Had it not been in our
power to enlarge our national stock of shipping
suddenly in the present exigency, a great proportion
of our produce must have remained on
our hands for want of the means of transportation
to market.—
To Gouverneur Morris. Washington ed. iii, 581. Ford ed., vi, 301.
(Pa., June. 1793)