Excerpt from The Life and Times of Stephen Girard, Mariner and Merchant, Vol. 2 The Voltaire, laden with 3149 barrels and 185 half barrels of ?our, might have reached the same market had her captain been a man of more determination. She arrived at Lisbon in January, 1805, and in her turn was sent on to Cadiz, where flour is quoted at $20, and $21 the barrel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.