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effectually separating the seed from the 
down or wool of the upland species, 
the culture has been progressively 
extended, In 1794, the quantity ex- 
ported exceeded 1,600,000lbs; the an- 
nual average of the five years, 1795 to 
1799, upwards’ of 7,000,000lbs; and 
the annual average of the five years, 
1800 to 1804,upwards of 29,000,000lbs. ; 
and from that period down to 1819, in 
each year as follows: 
Date: Sea Island, 
1805. . 8,787,659 
1806... 
1807. . 8,926,011 
1808.. 949, 
1809... 8,654,213 42,326,042 
1810... 8,604,078 
1811..8,029,576 
1812. . 4,367,806 
1813... 4,134,849 
1814. . 2,520,338 
1815. . 8,449,951 
1816. . 9,900,326 
1817.. » 85,649,328 
1818. . 92,471,178 
The diminished exportation in 1808, 
was owing to the interdictory sys- 
tem of the Americans; and _ the 
same causes operated again in 1812, 
which terminated in open hostility in 
1814. Up to the year 1808 the exporta- 
tion may be considered as comprizing 
the entire growth. The total quantity 
manufactured in the United States in 
1800 not exceeding 150,000lbs., in 1805 
about 300,060lbs., extended in 1810 by 
the Gircumstances of 1808, to about 
3,000,000Ibs. The circumstances of 
1812 again gave additional stimulus to 
manufacturing operations, which in 1815 
were extended to about 27,000,000lbs. ; 
the renewal of intercourse however, in 
1815, operated. as a severe check to 
American manufactures, so much so, 
that out of 2,325 persons, employ- 
ed in the manufacture in Philadelphia 
in 1816, 149 only were employed 
in 1819; since when, however, the 
manufacture has again revived, and 
probably amounts to the working up of 
about 25,009,000lbs. of the raw ma- 
terial. Of the total quantity exported 
in 1815 and 1816, about 18,000,000lbs. 
in each year went to France; about 
5,000,000Ibs. to all other parts of Eu- 
rope, and the remainder to England. I 
have no authentic account before me of 
the total quantity exported frem the 
United States since 1818, but the quan- 
tity imported into England, as exhibited 
in the general statement which follows, 
will serve pretty correctly to denote the 
50,980,255 
93,261,462 
62,058,336 
28,887,377 
19,110,016 
17,729,007 
82,998,747 
81,947,116 
54,028,660 
24,519,571 
14,975,167 
15,208,669 
74,548,796 
72,046,790 
Remarks on the Ng ural History of Cotton. 
[Oct. 1, 
progress of its culture. The quantity to 
France and other. parts of Europe has 
probably remained stationary at about 
22 to 25,000,000lbs. per annum, and 
the quantity consumed in internal ma- 
nufactures about the same; so that the 
present growth of the United States of 
America may be estimated at from 150 
to 160,000,000lbs. weight annually, with 
every prospect of its being doubled 
within the next fifteen or twenty years. 
From the close connexion between the 
growth of the raw. material in the 
United States of America, and the ma- 
nufactures in Great Britain, it will be 
seen necessary to exhibit them toge- 
ther. The values, therefore, which 
equally concern both countries, shall 
be the next part of the subject for 
illustration. The sea-island being a 
delicate plant, and susceptible of in- 
jury from the rains, varies greatly in 
price, the stained and ordinary qua- 
lities not exceeding in value the best 
quality of the upland, whilst the value 
of the clean and finest quality of the 
sea-island is double that of the finest 
upland. In adverting to the money 
value, it will be necessary to con- 
sider also the duty to which it 
has been subject on importation, and 
also the expense of transit. During 
the war, the impost was raised to 25s.6d. 
per 100lb. when imported in foreign 
ships, and 16s, 11d. if imported in Bri- 
tish ships; in 1816 the duty was re- 
duced to 8s, 7d. per 100 lbs. imported 
either in foreign or British ships; and 
in 1819 it was altered to an ad valorem 
duty of Gd. per lb. on the value, at 
which it has remained permanent. Dur- 
ing the war the freights yaried from 
2d., 24d., to 4d. per lb.; but since the 
termination of the war have found their 
level at from 13d. to 13d. per Ib. In 
stating the money values at the dif- 
ferent periods (as far as the grower is 
concerned in them), they will be stated 
including the amount of freight and im- 
post. It will be proper to deduct them 
in estimating the value to the grower ; 
to the consumer not so. In July 1801, 
the consuming price of the upland ave- 
raged about 2s. 2d. per lb., receding 
gradually to 1s. 34d. in 1803; advancing 
again to 1s.11d.in December 1805; from 
thence fluctuating from 1s.11d. down to 
1s. 5d. up to 3s. 1d., which was its 
maximum in October 1808, and which 
may be accounted for by the interdic- 
tory system of the American Govern- 
ment. The derangement to commer- 
cial intercourse occasioned by the Buo- 
napartean 
