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the following ports in the order of precedence as to 

 quantity : London, Cardiff, Hull, Liverpool, Hartlepool, 

 Manchester, Newport, the Tyne, Grimsby, Grangemouth, 

 Glasgow, Bo'ness ; the balance being distributed amongst 

 more than one hundred other ports. 



Russia and Sweden supply us with about two-fifths of 

 the quantity imported, and about half their total export, 

 and we pay these two countries for timber something over 

 10,000,000 a year, or nearly double the amount which we 

 pay for timber to British Colonies. Over 80 per cent, of 

 the total imports into Great Britain are conifers. 



