Excerpt from The Sailing Ships of New England, 1607-1907 Numerous friends have aided in the preparation of this volume and the Society is under particular obligation to Mr. Charles H. Taylor, Jr., of Boston, for making available the resources of his collection of ship pictures, -probably the largest collection in private hands in New England and containing numerous examples of the work of the artists about the Mediterranean. He has also generously supplied the colored frontispiece reproducing for the first time an early water-color in his collection. The Peabody Museum and the Essex Institute, at Salem, have loaned engraved blocks used in their publications and co-operat ed in other ways. The ship pictures that have appeared from time to time in the valuable historical series published by the State Street Trust Company of Boston, are here included by the kind permission of Mr. Allan Forbes and Mr. Perry Walton. Cordial thanks are also due to Mr. Hollis French, Horace Gray, M. D., Mr. Arthur F. Harlow, Mr. William R. Hedge, Mr. James A. Hutchinson, Joseph Morrill, Esq., Messrs. Houghton Mitfiin Company, Messrs. Little, Brown Co., the Bostonian Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society, and the Soci ety for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, all of Boston; Dr. Alfred Johnson, Mrs. Herbert Foster Otis, and Prof. Charles S. Sargent, all of Brookline; Mr. Francis W. Sprague of Cambridge; Oliver H. Howe, M. D. Of Cohasset; and to all others who have in any way furthered the production of this volume. 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.