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The Long Routes, and the Year They Take

A long route is not a distance but a sequence, and the difference is the whole of the outer trade. What limits a hull is water, provisions, the condition of the men aboard, and every one of those is a matter of how many days lie between one place where they can be renewed and the next. A route exists where that sequence closes. Where it does not close there is only open water, however short the distance looks.

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