The Port And Trade Of London PDF Download

Excerpt from The Port and Trade of London: Historical, Statistical, Local, and General The present work originated in a want of which I became conscious as Manager of an important commercial undertaking connected with the Port of London. In the daily course of commercial transactions, I found myself under the necessity of searching a great variety of books of reference, for the purpose of correctly ascertaining points, of history and practice, which I failed to find in any one volume to which I could refer. It occurred to me, under these circumstances, to bring together all the information I could respecting the Port of London - its history, its trade, its management, its statistics, and its customs. The inquiries necessary for this purpose, as I believe always happens in such cases, gradually, and almost insensibly, extended themselves far beyond the limit originally intended. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.