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of flour were shipped to Eastport during 

 the first year of the embargo. 1 So long as 

 flour could be bought in the United States 

 for five dollars and sold in Canada for 

 twelve and Jamaica for twenty-five dol- 

 lars a barrel, the embargo was powerless. 2 

 Freights were so high that a vessel could 

 afford to forfeit her bond and go abroad to 

 trade. 



The "Boston Palladium" of June 24, 

 1808, gives a letter from a gentleman in 

 Bristol, England, to an American mer- 

 chant in Liverpool from which the follow- 

 ing is an extract. "There is now here an 

 American schooner of 109 tons, the 'Eliza 



1 Cargoes were also landed between West Quoddy 

 and Machias River, within three miles of British territory. 

 The price paid for getting a barrel of flour across the line 

 was twelve and a half cents at first and later rose to three 

 dollars. One man was said to have made $47 in one 

 night, running flour across the line. KELLY, History 

 of Eastport and Passamaquoddy, p. 144. 



2 In the early days of the embargo two New Haven 

 vessels with flour reached St. Kitts, W. I., and sold then* 

 flour at fifty-four dollars a barrel, realizing 550 per cent. 

 New Haven Hist. Soc. Papers, p. 168. 



