[Footnote K:  Green, p. 593.]

[Footnote L:  Ricardo, p. 26.]

[Footnote M:  Meeker.]

[Footnote N:  W.W.  Bates, “American Marine,” pp. 57-59.]

[Footnote O:  John Macgregor, “Commercial Tariffs.”]

[Footnote P:  Lindsay, vol.  III, p. 65.]

[Footnote Q:  Macgregor.]

[Footnote R:  Lindsay, vol.  III, p. 69; also pp. 53-54 and 107.]

[Footnote S:  Rear-Admiral George H. Preble, “Chronological History of Steam Navigation.”]

[Footnote T:  Preble.  Lindsay says thirty-seven.]

[Footnote U:  Preble, p. 137; also Bates, p. 185.]

[Footnote V:  Meeker.]

[Footnote W:  Parliamentary papers 1839, vol.  XLVI, no. 566, as to the private contract.]

[Footnote X:  Lindsay, vol.  IV.]

[Footnote Y:  Meeker; also Parl. papers 1849, vol.  XII, no. 571.]

[Footnote Z:  Lindsay, vol.  X; also Parl. papers, report H. of C., Aug., 1840.]

[Footnote AA:  Report of Select Com. (1846) Parl. papers, vol.  XV, no. 565, p. 3.]

[Footnote AB:  Lindsay, vol.  IV.]

[Footnote AC:  The Princeton, sloop-of-war fitted with the Ericsson screw, launched the same year.]

[Footnote AD:  Lindsay, vol.  IV, p. 198, note.]

[Footnote AE:  John R. Spears, “The Story of the American Merchant Marine,” pp. 254-255.]

[Footnote AF:  William Wheelwright, of Newburyport, Massachusetts, sometime American consul at Guayaquil.]

[Footnote AG:  Winthrop L. Marvin, “The American Merchant Marine,” p. 231; also Preble; and Lindsay, vol.  IV, pp. 316-330.]

[Footnote AH:  Marvin, p. 231.]

[Footnote AI:  See p. 76, post.]

[Footnote AJ:  Meeker.]

[Footnote AK:  Lindsay, vol.  IV, p. 198, note.]

[Footnote AL:  Wells, p. 148.]

[Footnote AM:  Bates, p. 87; also p. 130.]

[Footnote AN:  Meeker.]

[Footnote AO:  Meeker.]

[Footnote AP:  See p. 77, post.]

[Footnote AQ:  Meeker.]

[Footnote AR:  Meeker.]

[Footnote AS:  Parl. papers, 1867-68, 1868-69.]

[Footnote AT:  See p. 20, ante.]

[Footnote AU:  The American Steamship Co. of Phila., with 4 iron steamers built on the Delaware—­the Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.]

[Footnote AV:  Meeker.]

[Footnote AW:  Ultimately embracing the American, Red Star, White Star, Atlantic Transport, and Dominion Lines.]

[Footnote AX:  For details of this contract see report of (U.S.) commissioner of navigation for 1903, pp. 48-52, and 224-268.  The two steamships called for were the Lusitania, 31,550 gross tons, launched June 7, 1906; and the Mauretania, 31,937 gross tons, launched Sept. 19, 1906, both quadruple screw turbines, about 70,000 horsepower; the largest, fastest, and completest steamers afloat till the production in 1911 of the Olympic, 45,324 gross tons, of the International Mercantile Marine Co.’s White Star Line.]