Excerpt from South American Trade of Baltimore The transportation facilities of Baltimore were especially suited to the character of the trade and the conditions of the time. The Baltimore clipper was a vessel peculiar to the Chesapeake. It was schooner-rigged, and possessed the advantage of sailing closer to the wind than other craft - a property that enabled it to escape privateers. It would be difficult to emphasize too strongly this advantage during the period of the European wars. 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.