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TOWNS OF SOUTH CAROJ.INA. 



those at any port on the continent. Nearly two hundred years ago the 

 transportation charges for immigrants from Europe to Charleston were 

 twenty dollars apiece. The following statement shows the foreign tonnage 

 entered at the port of Charleston, for the years named : 



1801 . . 50,880 

 1802 . . 67,914 



1843 

 1853 



21,148 

 94,475 



1859 

 1870 



129,7(34 

 3(3,332 



1881 . . 15(3,500 



The following statement shows the value of the exports and imports of 

 merchandise at Charleston for the years given, and also the percentage of 

 such value on the value of the total exports and imports for the colonico, 

 and for the United States : 



In 1769, the exports from Charleston were valued at £508,108, and 

 were greater than from any of the other English colonies ; in the same 

 year her imports amounted to £306,600, and were greater than those of 

 New York and Pennsylvania added together. It was not until 1816 that 

 the value of exports from New York equalled those made from Charles- 

 ton in the first year of the century, and as late as 172-1 the value of the 

 domestic exports from Charleston was greater than that of any city in 

 the United States. The largest value of imports after the revival of pros- 

 perity, about 1850, was in the year 1858, and amounted to $2,070,249. 

 The lowest ebb in this regard, after the war and reconstruction, was 

 reached in 1879, when the value of the imports amounted to only $131,- 

 182. Here, as elsewhere, it will be observed that there was great devel- 

 opment from 1850 to 1860, a disastrous falling away from that date, with 

 a fair promise of a restoration of prosperity since 1880. From 1791 to 

 1825 the Federal customs revenues collected in Charleston ajxcrrecated 



