EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 



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The inaccessibility of some of the custom-house records, the defective 

 ondition and total destruction of others, prevents a complete his- 

 tory of these shipments, but this schedule shows that various parties 

 \vere shipping, and that the consignments were widely distributed. It 

 u ill be observed that in most of the cases the loss on the passage is not 

 .riven, which, as a general rule, was 5 per cent. Others exceeded this, 

 tor many of them loaded with sheep affected with claveau or sheep-pox 

 lost heavily. The Broker lost 104 out of 194, the Factor 154 out of 356, 

 the Lydia 149 out of 279, the Purse 140 out of 290, the Laura the same, 

 the Otko 300 out of 480, the Sally 186 out of 200, the Gen. Colburn 191 

 out of 300, the Ann 244 out of 304, the Fox 93 out of 128, and so on iu 

 ui eater or lesser proportion. 



The tiumner left Lisbon in the latter part of September with 200 

 sheep. Her arrival is nowhere recorded, yet that she did arrive is evi- 

 dent from the fact that her loss is not mentioned, and that a letter com- 

 ing by her, elsewhere given, arrived at its destination. 



The total number of vessels arriving from September 1, 1810, to Au- 

 gust 31, 1811, as shown by this statement, was 180 vessels, 168 of which 

 landed 17,693 sheep, and lost 5,924 on the passage. These are the fig- 

 ures as given, but it must be borne in mind that in some cases the total 

 number given as landed is too high, including, as it does, the number 

 lost, the report making no allowance for the latter and stating the m- 

 tire number shipped. Twelve vessels are without the number shipped. 

 Allowing that these landed the average number carried by the 168, 

 which was 105, would add 1,260 to the total landed, making an aggre- 

 gate of 18,953 sheep. Add to this number the 698 given in the preced- 

 ing totals as arriving in 1810, prior to September 1, and we have 19,651 

 Merino sheep arriving in the United States from April 1, 1810, to Au- 

 gust 31, 1811. The number shipped from Spain and Portugal probably 

 reached 26,000. 



Number of vessels ai~riving at different port ft in the United States from Spain and Portugal 

 from September 1, 1810, to A ugust 31, 1811, with Merino sheep, and the number of sheep. 



Estimated. t Five cargoes estimate 1. J Four cargoes estimated. One cargo estimated. 



tThe one vessel arriving at ^North Yarmouth, Me., January 31, 1811, 

 tias left no record of the number of sheep she landed, nor does it appeal 



