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four-fold increase. The paucity of data for the period of the Restora- 

 tion may be supplemented by the table of the average annual cus- 

 toms duties collected, which indicate that commerce did not quite 

 double in that period. The table of shipping cleared singularly 

 substantiates a quadrupling of foreign commerce in the century. 



TABLE A. 



Foreign Commerce {Annual averages). 



(Million pounds sterling.) 



•Authority: Anderson, II, 478; Br. Mer., II, 334. 

 t Authority: Anderson, II, 496; Br. Mer , II, 334. 

 t Authority; Chalmers, Estimate, 234. 

 § .A.uthopty: Anderson, IV, 692-4. 



TABLE B. 

 Citsloms Duties^ (Averages) 



' Chalmers, Estimate, 49. 



