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tinued to increase her fleet and her invested capital until in 

 1857 her 329 vessels were valued at more than twelve million 

 dollars and carried ten thousand seamen; and her near neigh- 

 bours, Fairhaven, Dartmouth, Westport, Seppican, and Matta- 

 poisett, added almost a hundred vessels to the grand total of 

 four hundred and twenty-six which sailed from Buzzard's Bay. 



