

GREAT HUIT.MN AND 1KKLAM). 



mi unwrougbt, 8,474.311 : hardware and < ut- 



. ... m::.;:,.M, ptemtoib, 68,- 

 49M8S. The value of the coal exported was 

 1?J78J907. 



, .-, v, rario ( l 



. ., .;, !-.:,: ,:.,! IBM wWM 



ports of "t i,.n in 1893 were 1.11' 



Tool 



The values of the exports of British produce 

 of various classes for the two years were as fol- 



96.rvM.OM 





K6<U,813 

 .. 



.4,566 



The area under grain crops in Great Britain 

 in 1894 was 7.854.974 acres, having <! 



y years 1.576,516 acres; the production of 

 hope snowed a like decrease, the growing of flax 

 has almost ceased, and green crops fell off 10 

 percent, about the same amount of land b.-im: 

 added to the meadows, while the rest of the land 

 went out of tillage was turned into nerma- 

 pasture, the area of which increased from 

 13.178.412 acres in 1874 to 16,465.069 in 1894. 

 The crop of wheat in 1894 was 59,178.000 bushel* 

 in Great Britain and 1,666,000 in Ireland; bar- 



""' ' - Ifl Ore*! Britain an>l 



'' in In-land: oats. l.'J5,483,000 bushels 



it Britain and 55,701.000 bu-hels 



land. The number of horses in thernitcd Km-- 



dom in 1898 was 2.079,587 ; of cat 1 1.-. 1 1 .207,554 ; 



-:: . ::.-.>.'.:;... 



Tb. ' ngdom's output of coal f. ,r 1 *!'{ 



' -.-.MCI.SOS; , f 



Iron ore, 11.903.476 tons, vain 

 *m. WSJWtoos, Yalue9,m: -7: the value 

 Call metal* produced f r ,,m H r \\\*h ores. ' 

 2i10; t<4l value of mineral products. ' 



.51. which ww t! ;,^ than in 1892. 



f?* JJJ* *1^*47 persons cmplovol in the 

 N-s.570.ft7H of them underground. The ex- 

 it* of real in 18W were 20.0: ; valued 

 ?A J i2" ;i '*'*' T"* ^P^rt* "f iron ore were 

 4mm tons; th* total production of pig iron, 



.W tom^Tbe number of furna 

 in 1802 wa 982, against 414 in 1890. The im- 



the yesrfi consumption <>f ra\\ c<>tio: 



i-oiiiiiN: including the In. me pi 

 wool clipjHMl from imp..ri< d -In |.-km-. and im- 

 ports of goat hair and woolen rags, iin 

 supply was 951,000,000 ponn<l>. <>! \\ln< 

 000,000 pounds were < Ih. a<h. 



Mimption of wool was 580,000,000 p<nmU; tli<> 

 consumption of flax and t< 

 The ijiiantily of -oit.n piece goods cxpor;. 



yards; of linen, 158,000,000 van!- 



yarn, 206,000,000 pounds: of woolen van 

 000,000 pounds; of linen \arn.Ui. ...... .MOO,,. 



the total value of cotton exports. I J,;.;UIM 

 woolen exports, 20,900,000; of In 

 5,800.000; 



.Validation. Tii> number of ressels in the 

 foreign trade 'iitered at the ports of the i 

 Kingdom during 1893 was 59,916, of :::. i 

 tons, of which 86,587, of 26,919,000 U.ns, 

 British, ami L>:t.:{29 f of 10,2'J:;.<(io toi 



the number cleared wafi 59,918, of :i7,491 t - 



000 tons, of which :>,51 1. of JT.^lUMHM,,, 

 Briti.-h ami 'J:'.. J<>7. .,f 10/,T,-J.(ioo t.>i 

 ei^n. Of 20,484,183 tons, tin- foreign i 



i and nit. -n-d. .",.! l:;. 

 Norway, 3,789,702 to (in-many , 2,155 



r'lands, 1,848,856 to Sweden. 

 France, 1,772,837 to Den mark, l.l ;:,.::> 1 Spain. 

 1,022,546 to Belgium. 17.5s:J i 

 to the United States, 858,108 to Italy, and i 

 to Austria. Of the total tonnage. 

 tons were entered at the port of London. 

 sol at Liverpool, 9,408,044 at Cardi 



:. 540,889 at Shields. :U15 



1 hi 11, 2,748,599 at Glasgow. 8,130,75:5 at 

 am]. ton, and over 1,000.000 each at Sum! 



'iiddle>l>r. Leith. (Jrinis! 

 and (irangemonth. The vessels with 

 entered from foreign countries had an ag|B 

 gate tonnage of 28,796,000 tons, of whichM 

 962,000 were British an.l 7,834,000 foreign: ih- 

 tonnau'f '-li-an-d with cargoes f< 

 tries was 32,953,000 ton-, of which 

 were British and 8,457,000 f.-r.-i-n. 



The numl.cr of vessels register- -d a? belonging 

 to the 1'nited Kiiiirdi.ni in lsj:{ \\. 

 8,778,50>3 tons, of whi. h 1 

 were sailing vessels n: ;m.j: 



IICTS. The merchant shi|ipinu' 



of 8,541,888 tons, ' mpk 

 ing 240,974 men, ..f whom > J!.r.J!> 



;s. Thero 11 sailing vwt- 



as, and 2.-MO st.am vc- 

 527 tons, engaged in the home trad 

 ing v< . tons, and : M." 



..m'erl both in I he hoin'- and th<- 

 : ai.d l.'.i'J-l sailing vemeM^I 

 >S4 tons, an.l :{.:(;! stean 

 tons, .'lu-ivrlv in i In 



< omniNiiicatinii-. the rnilro;,. 

 traffic at the beginning of ls!M had 

 20,646 miles. The ate of extension 



since 1880 has been UM miles a year, con 

 with 214 miles in the preceding ten years. 

 are 14.440 mile- in I-in-land and Wam 

 3.215 miles in Scotland, and 2,991 mil.-sinlfr 

 land. The capital invested * 

 The receipts for 1893 were 80,631,802, of which 



