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Perils and its Rescue. A Lecture. 40 pp. Boston, 1879. 

 (The author advocates the discontinuance of seine-fishing 

 and of the southern spring mackerel fishing. Of little value.) 

 Roberts, Lewes. The Merchant's Mappe of Commerce, etc. 

 Folio, 431 pp., with index. London, 1636 ; 2nd edition, 1671, 

 enlarged. 



Roads, Samuel. History and Traditions of Marblehead. Bos- 

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 Roosevelt, Robert B. Superior Fishing, etc. Illustrated. 349 



pp. New York, 1884. 

 Russell, Edward T., and Co. The Harvest of the Sea. Boston, 



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Sabine, Lorenzo. Report on the Principal Fisheries of the Amer- 

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 United States. Written from Framingham, Mass., Dated 

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Part II. Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, Prince 

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(Published at Washington, in 1853; also in Exec. Docs., 

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 standard work, especially of the fisheries as carried 

 on in American waters previous to the settlement at 

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 indefinite. The writer has placed more emphasis 

 upon the political and diplomatic phase of the sub- 

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 twenty years were spent in collecting papers and 

 documents before the work was written. In addi- 

 tion to his admirable collection of material, the au- 

 thor possessed other qualifications that should mark 



