3^4 



Staves and heading 



Hoops 



Shingles 



Pine timber 



Handfpikes 



Bars 



A. D. 1762. 



pieces 



feet 

 pieces 



359,002 



10,500 

 688,045 



417.449 

 1,050 

 2,033 



It is to be obferved, that in thefe colonies the manufadure of lum- 

 ber, comprehending timber, ftaves, fhingles, &c. and alfo pitch, tar, 

 and oiher commodities procured from trees, the natural growth of the 

 foil, was merely a part of the procefs of clearing the ground; and the 

 comparifon of the exports of South-Carolina for only thefe two years 

 fhews, that a confiderable quantity of ground was cleared in 1762, 

 which was in a flate of nature in 1761 in that province. 



The oranges exported from Carolina are of a kind called bitter-fweet, 

 very different from the fweet kind, which we call China oranges. The 

 later kind are carried to Carolina from the Weft-India iflands. 



Georgia was yet in its infancy ; and the whole goods imported from 

 it to Great Britain this year, were not equal in value to the quantity of 

 cotton, a new and moll valuable article of its produce, which ibmetimes 

 comes now (1799) in one confignment to a fmgle merchant in the city 

 connected with that country. 



The official value of the imports and exports of Great Britain from 

 Chriflmas 1761 to Chriftmas 1762 was as follows. 



Countries, &c. 



Africa 



Canaries 



Denmark and Norway 



East Country 



East-India 



Flanders ^ 



France 



Germany 



Greenland 



Holland - 



Ireland 



Iceland 



Mann 



Italy 



Madeira 



Poland 



Prussia 



Portugal 



Russia 



Spain 



Straits 



Sweden 



Turkey 



Venice 



