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List of Vessels-continued,

XAYI OF VESSPL.

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68 vessels of' 12,429 tonnnge.
Piers.
HORATIO STEVENS, Esq., of New York, built the first pier,
at the foot of Huron street, in the year 1842. He added to
this a second the next year, and Mr. RIGBY built a third in
1845. These were near together. The south pier was built
by Dr. WEEKS, very near where the nem harbor now is, in the
year 1845. For several years these piers did nearly t,he whole
business, both for imports and exports, and they answered a
most admirable purpose in the absence of a harbor. For, un-
til their construction, ressels and steamers anchored off in the
the bay, and received and discharged their cargoes, at infinite
cost and trouble, upon a small steamboat, or scows. From
1840 until the opening of the new harbor, which was begun and
partly brought into use in 1844, the little steamer C. C. Trow
bridge, commanded at one time by Capt. CRAWFORD, (now Gen.