| Description | Including: details of London's Docks and Dry Docks (with names of officials and dimensions of individual docks); names and addresses (London-wide) of wharfingers (pp. 173-179), lightermen (pp. 75-80), shipwrights, ship-smiths, ship-chandlers, shipping butchers, nautical instrument makers, pilots, chart publishers, watermen, watchmen, cargo superintendents, tallymen, foreign consuls, laundresses, stevedores, etc; details of customs duties, international time differences, foreign currencies and measurements, tides, etc.; and lists of London wharves, with details of proprietors (pp.157-172). |