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For 1793. Tons Bur. 



3 Ships undtr French colours - - 2,000 



(5 Danish ditto - - - 3,130 



1 PortucLicsu ditto _ _ _ 370 



3 Genoese ditto - - - 2,900 



21 American ditto _ . - 6,297 



14,717 



For 1794. ■ 



1 V Ships under Danish colours - - 7,C00 



3 I'ortugucse ditto _ _ _ 1,400 



6 American* ditto - _ - 1,550 



10,530 



The n)edium of the three years gives 1 2,9(53 tons; but 

 as many of the ships under foreign colours from Europe 

 and America, touch at intermediate ports in India, and are 

 therefore recorded as arriving from or sailing to an Indian 

 port, thev must be added to the ships which made a direct 

 voyage. In the years before mentioned, these departures 

 were as follows : 



In 1792, 27 vessels, carrying - 6,880 tons. 

 1793, 28 ditto - - 9,533 



]7y4j 11 ditto - - 2,200 



18,635 



The medium is 6,21 If tons per annmn. 



The proportion of the cargoes of tliese ships intended for 

 the Europe market, it would be impossible to ascertain : 

 we shall estimate it at one-sixth of the medium for three 

 years, or l,()35g, which, added to the direct tonnage, gives 

 1 3,998 i tons. 



As a considerable portion of tonnage is occtipied by gruff 

 goods, we cannot estnuate it higher than 1000 current ru- 

 pees, or lOOl. per ton : even at this rate the whole value 

 will .'uiKJiiUt to current rupees 1,39,99,833,3 4, to which 

 adding lUe exports on the company's ships, the total of 

 goodi exported to Euro))e and America amounts by thi.-t 

 computation to two crorcs, cighty-tliroc lacks, forty-eight 

 thousaiid nine lumdrcvl and i'orly-twu curreut rupees, live 



• Tlie Anierican tonnjije declined this, year, from a very gcncrnl ap- 

 prehension t'.mt [)icvaili.d htri;, of the United States bccuming :i party in 

 ihc present wir. 



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