Huge Trading Profits of the Sailing Ships: Story of the Caroline's Curise The hardships of trading between America and China in the eighteenth century. and the enormous profits to be made by those who undertook, voyages, were illustrated by Dr. H. F. MacNair, on Thursday. in a lect Canton. he sold his American cargo for $60,000, a third of which was invested in China tea for America and the remainder in Ating out further trading expeditions to Europe, South Africa, and South America Finally, on his return to Boston, eight years after leaving, his profits amounted to $145,000, Youth of the Adventures actual low keet by. Capt. Richard Jeffery Cleveland. master-owner of the Caroline, and also from some I ters written by him. which were placed at his diapasal by Mrs. Clement 5.'Smith, of Shanghai, a great-oran daughter of Capt. Cleveland. The laz.
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