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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 923 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CABOTAGE , the

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TERM

term for

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COASTING

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COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast-pilotage . It is probably derived from

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cabot, a small

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BOAT (0. Eng. bdt; the true etymological connexion with Dutch and Ger. boot, Fr. bateau, Ital. battello presents great difficulties; Celtic forms are from O. Eng.)

boat, with which the name Cabot may be connected; the conjecture that923 the word comes from cabo, the

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SPANISH

Spanish for cape, and means " sailing from cape to cape," has little

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FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

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