. Every boy's book of railways and steamships . le the new merchant steamships launched all theworld over numbered 523, with a tonnage of929,000 ; of these 301 were built in the UnitedKingdom and 74 in the British Colonies, aggre-gating 622,000 tons. The Atlantic is by far the most importantocean in the world, because the most valuable landsfrom an economic point of view, slope towards it,the lands inhabited by the most energetic North Atlantic is the busiest shipping thorough-fare, and our own trade returns show its out-standing importance. From Canada we draw vastquantities of co
. Every boy's book of railways and steamships . le the new merchant steamships launched all theworld over numbered 523, with a tonnage of929,000 ; of these 301 were built in the UnitedKingdom and 74 in the British Colonies, aggre-gating 622,000 tons. The Atlantic is by far the most importantocean in the world, because the most valuable landsfrom an economic point of view, slope towards it,the lands inhabited by the most energetic North Atlantic is the busiest shipping thorough-fare, and our own trade returns show its out-standing importance. From Canada we draw vastquantities of corn and flour, wood and woodproducts, live animals, and dairy produce ; and theUnited States supply us with raw cotton, grain,animals, meat, timber, petroleum and many otherproducts. The amazing rise in American trade isone of the wonders of the modern commercialworld; and out of 77,000,000 tons of shippingentered and cleared from the ports of the UnitedStates in a year, only 10,000,000 tons are inconnection with the Pacific coast. Again, North. THE ATLANTIC FERRY 273 America draws to its swelling prairies settlers fromevery country in Europe. From British portsalone in a single year sail some 550,000 emigrants,of whom about 170,000 are Britons bound for theStates and 150,000 for Canada; the remainder areforeigners who come to England to take advantageof the cheap steerage facilities offered by numerousBritish shipping companies. The Cunard Line is a household word, not forthe number of its ships or the immensity of itstonnage, but the manner in which it has upheld thesupremacy of British shipbuilding, and particularlyfor its determination not to allow a foreign companyto claim the speed honours of the Atlantic the time these words! appear in print the greatCunard steamships will have been surpassed in size,but history seems likely to repeat itself, for in theautumn of 1910 it was announced that the CunardCompany had determined to build the largeststeamship ever const
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