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Excerpt from Last Days of Sail on the West San Francisco Harbor How many sailing vessels are still afloat and in seaworthy condition? In what proportions are they distributed among the maritime nations? What is their present occupation, if any? These and many other questions occur to the mind, but no answer is forthcoming - none, that is to say, that satisfies the desire for facts and figures. Seamen and other experts on the subject have each their own fund of information. But the knowl edge thus obtainable suffers from the characteristic of all expert testimony. In short, our informants disagree and leave us no wiser than before. 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.