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THE

MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE,

AND

Commercial Review.

CONDUCTED BY FREEMAN HUNT.

VOLUME V.

NEW-YORK:

FREEMAN HUNT, 142 FULTON-STREET.
BOSTON: SAXTON & PIERCE.
PHILADELPHIA: DREW & SCAMMEL.

NEW-ORLEANS: J. F. CURNS & CO.

1841.

ANA

INDEX.

ORIGINAL PAPERS.

The Mississippi Scheme, by Francis Wharton............
Theory of Banking, by a Merchant of Boston, Mass...
Progress of American Commerce, by James H. Lanman
Maryland, and its Resources, by William G. Lyford..
Free Trade, by S. G. Arnold...

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Profits of Marine Insurance-The Mutual System, by Zebedee Cook, jr..

Question of Average, by Judge Willard Phillips....

The Law of Contracts in Missouri, by Charles G. Whittlesey, Counsellor at Law...
Commercial History of France, No. 1, by Francis Wharton......

9

27

37

50

58

63

67

70

105

American Manufactures, by James H. Lanman....

122

General Average-Its application to Lighterage and Freight, by Judge Willard
Phillips...

British Import Duties-Abstract of the Report of the Committee of the House of
Commons on Import Duties, etc..

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Agricultural Commerce of the United States, by James H. Lanman.........................

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Of Missouri, by Charles D. Drake, Attorney at Law, St. Louis...

Of Illinois, by Charles Gillman, of the Quincy (Illinois) Bar...
Suffolk Bank System.......

252

446

261

Russia and her Commercial Strength, by Francis Wharton....
Coinage of the Precious Metals, by J. V. C. Smith, M. D..
Philosophy of Storms, by S. G. Arnold...

297

321

338

Venetian Commerce, by E. W. Stoughton...

393

Thermometrical Observations, as connected with Navigation, by James Mease, M. D. 411

British Import Duties-Evidence of John Bowring, LL. D...

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Morocco, and its facilities for American Commercial Enterprise, by W. S. Mayo,
M. D....

489

Commercial Relations of the United States, by James H. Lanman..

507

British Corn Laws, by James M. Whiton.......

519

The Morals of Trade, No. 1, by John Bellows..

526

Familiar Scenes in the Life of a Clerk, by the author of the "Victim of Chancery," 530
The Computation of Interest, by C. C. Gordon...........

540

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