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Of other packeting to distant shores we have already 

 spoken. The following list of freighting vessels owned 

 at Cohasset and registered in Boston during this period is 

 probably far from complete, but they were gleaned by 

 much labor from the Boston Custom House records and 

 may be of interest. The journeys of these vessels may 

 be imagined to every country of the globe. The two 

 brigs of Levi Tower, the Rebecca and the Ann, went 

 many times into the Mediterranean Sea to get fruit 

 cargoes. 



But packeting and sea freighting as well as stagecoach- 

 ing began to dwindle as the indirect result of a steam 

 railway connecting us with Boston. In fact, a series of 



