rambling idle excursion-第10部分
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The health…officer's place is worth a hundred thousand dollars a year to
him。 His system of inspection is perfect; and therefore cannot be
improved on; but it seems to me that his system of collecting his fees
might be amended。 For a great ship to lie idle all night is a most
costly loss of time; for her passengers to have to do the same thing
works to them the same damage; with the addition of an amount of
exasperation and bitterness of soul that the spectacle of that health…
officer's ashes on a shovel could hardly sweeten。 Now why would it not
be better and simpler to let the ships pass in unmolested; and the fees
and permits be exchanged once a year by post。
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