The sea trader, his friends and enemies . theUnited States aimed steadily at making themselves thecarriers and the channel of universal commerce. Englandsinstruments were monopoly and restriction. The weaponsused by the States were enterprise and the clipper ship. The question what particular shape and qualities consti-tuted the kind of vessel called a clipper may be put to booksand men without eliciting a short and satisfactory term is in reality not a definition, but a rhetoricalepithet of praise. It was no fixed place of greatest breadthnor settled proportion of beam to length, o
The sea trader, his friends and enemies . theUnited States aimed steadily at making themselves thecarriers and the channel of universal commerce. Englandsinstruments were monopoly and restriction. The weaponsused by the States were enterprise and the clipper ship. The question what particular shape and qualities consti-tuted the kind of vessel called a clipper may be put to booksand men without eliciting a short and satisfactory term is in reality not a definition, but a rhetoricalepithet of praise. It was no fixed place of greatest breadthnor settled proportion of beam to length, or of beam todraught, which constituted the cHpper. A ship was aclipper when she was not a tub. The word indicated aneffort to obtain speed, smartness in method, and somethingof grace. What the origin of the term was, and how itcame to be applied to a ship, are questions of some obscurity. p H o I c m o p O r ». 5 13 2: ?D m (T D 3a S CO •-> I o en ?0 t w H o c .^ z r? o > z ^^ D 3 CA c JL z -1 CO u> > 5; 30 3a- <5O. CONCLUSION 371 The first appearance of the word was as the name of thecriminal who chpped the Kings coin by paring off theedges. Yet the name was given to small, quick-sailingboats used as packets on the British Coast, and it veryprobably emigrated from Liverpool to New England. Beall that as it may, the clipper ship known to fame was acreation of New England, and the nearest approach to astrict definition of her is that she was built to carry cargoas quickly as might be, and was not so built as to sacrificeevery other quality a ship can have to the capacity forstowing a great deal of cargo. The conditions of trade had tended to make mere capacityto hold cargo the first of virtues in a ship. As far as GreatBritain was concerned, they had been aggravated by thepractice which levied harbour and light dues on tonnageestimated by multiplying the length of the keel by thebeam, multiplying the product by half the beam, anddividing by ninety-four. The rul
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