130 A. D. 1787. 



Oats - - 4j015 bushels - - ^51 6 



Peas - - 304 - - - 63 



Potatoes - - - - - 55 



Onions - - - - 300 



Pork and beef - - - ^ 586 



Flax-seed - - IOJ71 bushels - - 2,034 



Pot-ashes - _ _ _ 1,724 



Horses - - 67 - - - 670 



Timber, masts, staves, planks, shingles, casks - - 4,484 



Salmon - _ _ _ - 828 



Train oil - - - - 3,700 



Salt fish and peltry from Labrador, Bay Chaleur, and Gaspe - 6o,000 



Other articles _____ 2,880 



Total* - _ _ _ ^343,214 



The goods imported into' Canada this year were 



Rum, to the value of " - - - ^63,032 



Melasses - - - - 21,380 



Sugar - _ _ _ - 5,269 



Spanish wine - - - - 31,288 



Salt _ _ - - - 2,912 



Other merchandize of all kinds - ^ - 201,235 



Total - - - . - ^325,116 



There were alfo imported on government account 6,709 barrels of 

 pork, and 1,754 firkins of butter, for the ufe of the garrifons. 



It has been remarked, as a lingular circumftance, that the colledlions 

 of fkins from fo vafl an extent of country, though fubjed: to be affeded 

 by accidents of weather, the caprice of the Indians, and the condu6t of 

 the traders, have continued very nearly the fame for feveral years after 

 1786. 



The governments of Great Britain and France appear to have been at 

 this time very llncerely difpofed to prevent any collifion of commercial 

 interefts from interrupting the harmony between the two kingdoms. 

 In addition to the arrangements already made for promoting a friendly 

 intercourfe in Europe, they now, by a particular convention, cleared up 

 fome difficulties, which had arifen in the Eaft-Indies relative to the 

 meaning and extent of the thirteenth article of the treaty of peace. 



By the firfl article ' a fafe, free, and independent trade, fuch as was 

 * carried on by the French Eafl-India company,' was fecured to the 

 fubjeds of France, ' whether they exercife it individually or as a com- 

 ' pany,' as well in the nabobfliip of Arcot, and in Madura and Tanjore, 



* I have enumerated fome very minute articles to fpare. Even this year, though pork be ex- 



of provilions, &c. produced by the agricultural ported, pork and butter are imported for the 



induilry of Canada this year, becaiife it is not army, 

 •very year that that province has any provifions 



