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setts leads New York, but not to such an 

 extent as in registered tonnage. Pennsyl- 

 vania has surprisingly little coasting trade, 

 perhaps as much as Portland, Me. Virginia 

 and Maryland have less than half the coast- 

 ing trade of Massachusetts, and South 

 Carolina about one quarter the coasting 

 tonnage of Maryland. 



Although the Southern States supplied a 

 considerable portion of our domestic ex- 

 ports, the tonnage owned south of the Po- 

 tomac was comparatively small and even 

 this tonnage was largely manned by Eng- 

 lish and other foreigners. 1 The rich and 

 influential planters of the South had no love 

 for a maritime life, nor perhaps did they 

 care to encourage a business where slaves 

 could not be utilized and which would with- 

 draw a large number of white men from a 

 country which continually oscillated be- 

 tween desire for more agricultural laborers 



1 Three quarters of the seamen on southern owned 

 vessels were Englishmen. Mr. Madison's War, Pam- 

 phlet. 



