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The exports were : — 



The value of the domestics exported (principally 

 cotton goods) in 1844, amounted to $1,234,458. 



In 1847, 518,800 barrels flour came into Boston 

 by the Western Railroad. In 1845, the freight of a 

 barrel of flour from Albany to Boston, 200 miles, was 

 25 cents ; from Buffalo to Boston, 521 miles, 85 

 cents ; from Detroit, 848 miles, 105 cents ; and from 

 Chicago to the same place, 1,563 miles, 125 cents. 

 The average price of flour in Boston for the previous 

 ten years, up to 1844, was $6,80. The British 

 reader "will bear in mind that 100 cents make a dollar, 

 and five dollars make one pound sterling. 



The following is an extract from the inaugural 

 address of Mr. Quincy, the Mayor of Boston in 1846 : 



" A few years ago Boston had no facilities for com- 

 municating with the interior ; and when the West 

 and the North began to develop their vast resources, 

 and to become at once the consumers of our manufac- 

 tures and the producers of our food, our easiest com- 

 munication with them was through our sister cities. 

 To them our manufactured articles went ; to them our 

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