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MDCCCXLIII.

INDEX-VOLUME IX.

FROM JULY TO DECEMBER, INCLUSIVE, 1843.

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ORIGINAL PAPERS, ETC.
Sandwich or Hawaiian Islands, with a review of the past and present condition of the

Polynesian Groups generally, in connection with their relations to Commerce and
Christianity, by James Jackson Jarvis, author of the “ History of the Hawaiian
Islands,".

15
Internal Trade of the United States, by J. W. Scott, of Ohio,......

31
Progress of Population and Wealth in the United States, in Fifty Years, as exhibited

by the Decennial Census taken in that period, by Professor George Tucker, of the
University of Virginia,

Chapter XVII.- Distribution of the Industrious Classes,...
Chapter XVIII.—Education........

53
Chapter XIX.— The Products of Industry,...

136
Chapter XX.—The Products of Industry,..

220
Chapter XXI.-Increase of Wealth in the United States......

509
A Protective stem-Its Expediency and Necessity, by Hon. Charles Hudson, of
Massachusetts,...

58
Sandwich or Hawaiian Islands—Their Commerce and Agriculture—Their Prospects

Their Chief Towns-Seizure by Lord George Paulet, by James J. Jarvis,.. 111
Our Railways, by W. R. Casey, Civil Engineer of New York............

144
Inland Navigation of the State of New York, with a short account of its origin, and

of the Trade and Tonnage of the Erie Canal, by Henry S. Dexter, Civil Engineer
of New York,....

148
Commerce of the Mississippi, by James H. Lanman, author of the “ History of
Michigan,”.

154
Free Trade : Mr. Woodbury's Views of the Tariff, by J. B. Fisher......

161
Mercantile Biography : Life and Character of Jacob Ridgway,

167
Story on Bills of Exchange, Guaranty of Bills, and Letters of Credit...

169
Debts and Tariffs of the South of Europe, by Francis Wharton, of Pennsylvania,... 207
Usury and the Usury Laws, by J. O'Connell, of New York,..........

243
Letter to Cotton Manufacturers, by Henry Lee, of Massachusetts,...

253
Maritime Law, No. 1: The Doctrine of Lien, with reference to the Law of Ship-
ping, by Alanson Nash, Counsellor at Law, New York,.........

261
Salern East India Marine Society,......

266
Sketches of Commercial Legislation : Chartering of the late Bank of the United
States, by Francis Wharton, Esq., of Pennsylvania,...

303
Impending Revolutions in the Commercial Intercourse of the World, by Hon. H.
Wheaton, United States Minister at Berlin,.........

321
Commerce of Cuba,....

337
Letter to Cotton Manufacturers, by Henry Lee, of Massachusetts,..

351
Maritime Law, No. 2: Doctrine of Liens, with reference to the Law of Shipping,
by Alanson Nash,..

358
Meteorological Observations at Sea, by James Mease, M. D., of Pennsylvania....... 365
Debt and Tariff of Portugal, by Francis Wharton, Esq., of Pennsylvania,..

366
Book Trade of Germany, by Henry Meidinger, Foreign Member of the Statistical
Society of London,.....

399
Massachusetts and her Resources, by Hon. Charles Hudson, of Massachusetts,. 418
The Post-Office Department,.....

436
Our Shipping, by James H. Lanman,..

444