PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE. xxxv 



Some attempts had been made by Aberdeen, Dum- 

 fries, Air, and other towns, towards a plantation 

 trade, but they proved abortive, through the po- 

 verty of the adventurers, and the nation. Glafgow, 

 therefore, enjoyed this trade exclufively, in Scot- 

 land; and in 1735, the whole Dipping of that city 

 confifted of 



. 15 vefTels trading to Virginia 



3 m Bofton 



4 Jamaica 



2 Antigua 



2 St. Kitts 



i Barbadoes 



4 The Streights 



1 . Gibraltar 



7 Stockholm 



2 r Holland 



6 1 . London 



47 foreign traders 

 20 fmall coaflers 



67 veffels carrying 5,600 tons 

 Tonnage of the whole Scottifh commerce, previous 

 to the war 1740, viz. 



Edinburgh and Leith 2,628 



Glafgow 5,600 



The collective tonnage of all the other^ 

 ports is eftimated high in fuppofmg it I 

 equal to one half of the tonnage em- j 4> JI 4 



ployed in the above-mentioned towns J 



12,342 



While the average tonnage of Englifln 



ihipping, in 1736, 7, 8, as appears I g 



by the ledger of the mfpector gene- | 

 ral, amounted to J 



Carried over 476^941 



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