BALTIC. 



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Baltic. Danish dominions, is by far the most considerable 



"" -v- ' port in this interesting territory ; and next to it, in 



importance, is Elsineur, on the Sound. It may be 



gratifying to our readers, to present them with a Ta- 



ble of the ships of various nations, which have passed 

 the Sound, from the year 1792 till 1805 ; to which 

 we shall subjoin an average of the principal articles 

 annually exported from all the ports of the Baltic. 



Table of Ships of all Nations which passed the Sound in the following Years. 



179J 



1793J 1794 j 1795 



British . . . . 

 Dutch . . . . 

 Danish . . . . 



Prussians . . . 

 Swedish . . . 

 Russians . . . 

 Bremeners . . 

 Lubecers . . . 

 Hamburgers . 

 Papei, burgers 

 Oldenburgers 

 Rostocers . . 

 Courlanders . 

 Portuguese 

 Americans . . 

 Spanish . . . . 

 French . . . . 



Total 



3788 



2009 



1559 



698 



430 



6 



177 



89 



104. 



24- 

 339 

 22 

 30 

 44 

 42 

 132 



3478 



887 



1508 



615 



2295 



53 



176 



88 



75 



86 



36 



264. 



304 



9 



90 



3 



3457 



1019 



1658 



628 



2475 



34 



175 



105 



85 



67 



26 



287 



308 



46 



141 



14 



2549 



1 



1629 



946 



2336 



6 



61 



61 



33 



24 



37 



84 



41 



11 



127 



7 



9493 



1796 



1797 



1798 1799 1800 



4455 



1 



2157 



2022 



2505 



7 



93 



70 



40 



232 



120 



193 



10 



14 



169 



25 



2405 



2017 

 2103 

 23S9 



139 



57 



47 



172 



107 



191 



2 



13 



81 



3313 



1825 



1621 



2120 



13 



96 



39 



44 



147 



55 



103 



12 

 120 



2599 



1571 



1420 



1674 



13 



91 



54 



5 



97 



33 



137 



2 

 152 



9967 10525: 7953 121 13[ 9723 | 9508 7848 



3138 



1487 



1753 



1911 



14 



82 



60 



28 



152 



39 



278 



1801 1802|1803 1804 



2656 



G 

 76 



9054 



1527 



2049 



1632 



36 



108 



103 



73 



231 



41 



362 



8 

 172 



3957 



634 



1771 



2388 



2212 



47 



163 



90 



52 



395 



75 



129 



15 



156 



14 



32 



899S 1213011631 



4123 



65 



1889 



2305 



2195 



73 



114 



79 



90 



240 



92 



144 



11 



192 



17 



2 



3507 



1899 



2012 



2154 



84 



93 



76 



120 



190 



59 



169 



35 



160 



21 



10579 



The following is a pretty correct estimate of the 

 quantity of the principal articles exported from all 

 the ports of the Baltic, to all places; reckoning upon 

 the average betwixt the years 1801 and 1803. 



Iron . , 66,800 tons 



Hemp 62,500 



Flax 18,700 



Tallow 34,800 



Grain exported in 1801 and 1802. 

 Wheat 994,609 . 



Rye 689,133 



Barley 193,046 



Oats 97,3:>7 



Pease .... . 3 2,129 



Total 2,012,254 



1,032,941 quarters 

 1,166,537 



194,683 



168,201 



32,470 



2,594,832 



Besides timber in masts, yards, spars, balks, deals, 

 battens, staves, oak plank, and wood of all descrip- 

 tions; and many other articles of inferior importance. 

 The number of trading vessels belonging to the 

 states on the Baltic, including those of Norway 

 and Holstein, in 1804, was 4134, carrying about 

 493,417 British tons. The aggregate value of the 

 exports shipped at all the Baltic ports betwixt the 

 years 1801 and 1803, may be reckoned according to 

 ".he prime cost price as follows : 



Iron about ^1,002,000 



Hem P 2,590,600 



FIax 1,028,500 



Tallow 2,497,(KK> 



ra, , n - ;, 7,608,365 



limber of all sorts 1,589.800 



Linens 1,020,000 



All other articles 2,186,000 



Total 197522^61 



Hence it appears, that in years when there is a 

 great exportation of grain, the aggregate of the Bal- 

 tic trade may be reckoned to amount to twenty mil- 

 lions sterling. The share which Great Britain has 

 in this trade, leaving the grain out of the calculation, 

 amounts to at least two thirds of the whole ; and 

 consists of iron, hemp, flax, and tallow, in a still 

 larger proportion ; of wood and timber nearly the 

 whole. Independent of grain, the aggregate trade 

 of this country with the Baltic is twelve millions 

 sterling. See Tooke's View of the Russian Empire, 

 vol. i. p. 212. Pinkerton's Geography, vol. i. p. 12. 

 Crutwell's Gazetteer. Oddy's European Commerce. 

 Physical Observations on the East or Baltic Sea, by 

 F. W. Otto. Voyage de deux Francois dans le Nord 

 de I' Europe, fait en 1790 1792, torn. i. p. 354 ; and 

 Peuchet's Diet, de la Geograph. Commerc. torn. ii. 

 p. 685. M 



BALTIC Port, formerly called Rogervyk, one 

 of the five districts of the government of Revel, or 

 Esthoinea, in the Russian Empire. It is situated in 

 a bay on the Baltic, in lat. 59 22', long. 41 51' 3". 



BALTIC Fishery. Though the Baltic is not 

 distinguished by any great variety of fish, yet parti- 

 cular species are to be found in considerable quanti- 

 ties along some of its coasts. Of these, the most 

 important are salmon, pike, lampreys, streamlings. 

 The streamlings are a degenerate species of herring, 

 found on all the shores of the Baltic, especially near 

 Pernau, where they are sometimes taken in amazing 

 quantities. The kyllo streamling is a smaller and. 

 more delicate variety of that species, quite peculiar 

 to these waters, and is caught in great numbers in, 

 the autumnal season near Revel and Baltic Port. 

 When pickcllcd, they make an excellent substitute 



Baltic. 



