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the clove tree, which, by order of the committee of the privy council 

 for trade, was printed for the purpofe of rendering the knowlege of that 

 valuable tropical produdtion as general as poffible in our Weft-India 

 colonies *. 



As a continuation of the accounts I have given of the exports of the 

 United ftates of America in the years 1790-1793, (See above p. 326) 

 I here infert accounts of thofe of the three fucceedlng years, together 

 with brief notices of the ftate of the principal trading towns of Amer- 

 ica at this time, and fome other articles of commercial information re- 

 fpeding the United flates. 



The total value, in dollars, of the exports of the United flates was, in 

 the years ending 30'" September 



Of the above exports there were from 



New Hampshire 



Massachusets bay 



Connecticut 



New York 



New Jersey 



Pennsylvannia 



Delaware 



Virginia * . . - 



North Carolina 



South Carolina 



This aftonifhing increafe beyond' the exports of the immediately pre- 

 ceding years was occafioned in fome meafure by the augmented popuU 

 ation, production, trade, and capital, of the United Hates. But a great 

 part of it muft be afcribed to the increafed importation of Weft-India 

 produce, which was carried to America for the purpofe of being re- 

 ihipped for Europe in neutral bottoms. And a much greater propor- 

 tion of it was occafioned by the prodigious increafe of the price f of 

 corn, the chief article of American exportation, which the abftradion 

 of the European agricultural peafeutry for the armies and navies of the 

 belligerent powers, and the vaft confumption and wafte of thofe armies 

 and navies, together with the increafed danger and expenfe of carrying 

 corn by fea, have rendered dreadfully fcarce and enormoufly dear in 

 many parts of Europe. Thus has the war in Europe turned out a mine 



* It has been fnppnfed, that the fpices of the 

 Eall owe their high aromatic flavour to the heat 

 of the fubtcrraiicoiis fires in the iflands, whicii pro- 

 duce them, and that coiifequeiitly there is little 

 chance of their fucceeding equally well in other 

 countries in the Hime climate, which have not that 

 dangerous advantage. Mr. Gentil, in his account 

 of the produftions of the Ifle of France, obferves 

 that the nutmeg requires an arid fpongy foil, com- 

 pofed of cinders, lava, and other volcanic matter, 

 wiih a very hot atmofphere, and frequent rains. 



The Molucca iflands poffefs thefe qualities, fo 

 necefTary to the perfeftion of nutmegs, which, 

 from the want of them, will not fuccecd equally- 

 well in the llle of France. Time mufl determine 

 whether thefe opinions are well founded. 



■f It is proper to obferve that the funis in thefe 

 accounts are made up from tlie felling prices, thtrt 

 being no eftablifhed oflicial valuation in the culloni- 

 houfe accounts of America, as in thofe of Great 

 Britain, 



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