Excerpt from A Treatise on the Law of Shipping and the Law and Practice of Admiralty, Vol. 1 of 2 Of those who aided me most about my previous works, I have spoken in the prefaces to them. I have received valuable assistance in the present work from many per sons. I must indulge myself with mentioning partien larly, John Lathrop, Esq., of Boston, whose learning, and intelligence, and faithful industry, and capacity for ex haustive investigation, must soon give him a high place in his profession. 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.