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But it was the discovery of gold in California in 1849 that caused the clipper ships to dominate travel on the high seas.
That's in contrast with Dana's masterpiece Two Years Before The Mast, staged around 1930; they were trading only shipping skins. And obviously you didn't need clippers to ship gold.
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