sea-trails

Updated: May 22, 2025

As soon as these new sea-trails had been furrowed by the keels of Elias Hasket Derby, other Salem merchants were quick to follow in a rivalry which left no sea unexplored for virgin markets and which ransacked every nook and corner of barbarism which had a shore.

Ralph Delahaye Paine - The Old Merchant Marine; A chronicle of American ships and sailors