A. D. 1774. 



56' 



colonies in the courfe of this year amounted in vakie to ^^879,762 : 6 : o 

 fterling.and the French goods carried to the fame city to 1,157,170: 8 :o 

 There arrived this year at Hamburgh 697 trading vefTels, of which 248 

 were Britifh. It is worthy of remark, that of 23 veflels from Shetland 

 with herrings, 19 were Danifh, only 2 Dutch, and only 2 Britifh ; and 

 of 52 whale ftiips from Davis's ftraits and Greenland, 45 belonged to 

 Hamburgh. There were 74 vellels from Ruffia and the Baltic loaded 

 with corn only. 



The goods imported at Bremen this year from Great Britain and 

 Ireland amounted to - - /^i 62,561 : 11 ; o 



and thofe from France, to - - 251,523 : 17.0 



In the courfe of this year the following veflels pafled the Sound. 



Total 



7,176 



631 



277 8,084 



The induftrious trading town of Leeds was found by an exa61 enu- 

 meration to contain 8,041 men and boys, and 9,076 women and girls, 

 being 17,117 inhabitants in 4,099 families. 



The great improvement of the cultivation of Jamaica will appear irora 

 a comparifon of the ftatement, already given, of its exports in the year 

 1768, with the following account of its exports in this year, which was 

 taken by Mr. Edwards from the official books in the ifland. 



To 



Great Britain \ 



and Ireland. J 



North ■) 



America. / 



re *^ c. 



76,344 



"8,30-1 26,071 



^4 



^5 



17,348 

 8,726 





4.140 

 57,000 



Ol,2(XJ 



14,625 



6y3 



c «^ 



2,348 

 579 



15,3 lb 2,y27 



18 



2,022 



89 



2.110 



is 



3,684 

 2,863 



6,547 







l,2S6i 



26i 



438 1,313 



o ,%> 



117,200 



12,OfeO 



12U,2,SO g,2iJ2 



-a 



X 



656 

 8,636 



It is proper to obferve, that the great dccrcafe in melafies (compared 

 with the exportation of 1768) may be afcribed, partly to a greater 

 quantity having been ufed in the diftillery, the quantity of rum being 

 larger this year in proponion to the fugar than in 1768, and perhaps, 

 partly to a more favourable feafon, which produces better fuirar, and. 



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