Excerpt from An Essay on Average: And on Other Subjects Connected With the Contract of Marine Insurance; Dedicated, by Permission, to the Committee for Managing the Affairs of Lloyd'sAt the suggestion of the Committee, for which the writer takes this opportunity of ex. Pressing his obligation, he has added a c0pious index to this edition, - which he hopes will be useful to his readers. He has also prefixed 9. Table or contents, which will serve as a short analysis of the work.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work.

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