194 



A. D. 1796. 



105,15/ rVxice 



50,014 J Tobacco . . . 

 223,06'4 ^ Traill oil . . . 

 179,004 ^Spermaceti oil 

 'Tea 



. lp,5(J8 rTea . . 

 . . 6,010 < Pepper 

 . 6,860 I Spices, 



tierCeB • 



hogshead; 

 gallons . 



pounds . 



12,029 



Spi 

 ' Sugar . 

 Colibe 

 < Cacao 



value in dollars 



pounds 



■ 3,437 

 . . 37,726 



• . . 7,782 

 . . 21,600 

 . 244,552 

 . 1 1 6,086 

 12,96.0,916 

 21,002,300 

 . . 161,120 

 . . 011,325 

 • • 99,200 



Flour • barrels 



Rye flour 



Indian meal 



Indian corn bushels 



Bread barrels . 



Ditto kegs . . 



Beef barrels . 



Pork . 



Hams pounds . l,OS2,6gb 



Timber, boards and lumber of all kinds 



Furs, value in dollars 47,713 I Cotton 



[_ Indigo 



The value, in dollars, of the exports from Philadelphia this year was 

 as follows. 



To the dominions of Denmark 737,287 



Great Britain 5,210,079 Italy 521, g64 



France 4,185,431 Sweden 411,408 



Hamburgh, Bremen, Hanse towns . . 2,981,232 Portugal 138,490 



United Netherlands 2,009,100 East-Indies 42,g32 



Spain 1,265,471 China 40,747 



It is worthy of remark that the exports were much greater to the col- 

 onies than to any of the mother countries, except Great Britain f. 



Wilmington, though it was till the year 1794 the feat of government 

 of the ftate of Delaware, has almoft no foreign trade : and the fa;*.e may 

 be faid of all the other towns on the fhores of Delaware bay, they being 

 all too near to Philadelphia to have the opportunity of carrying on any 

 trade, but as fubfidiary to it. 



Baltimore, though not the feat of government, and though it was, 

 not many years ago, a place of very little confequence, is now the moft 

 confiderable town in Maryland, and difputes the precedence of com- 

 mercial importance with Charlefton in South Carolina and Boflon in 

 Maflachufet's bay, Philadelphia and New York being on all hands al- 

 lowed to poflefs the firft and fecond rank. Baltimore, ever fince the 

 commencement of the prefent war has been in a peculiarly-rapid flate 

 of advancement, and contained in the year 1796 between four and five 

 thoufmd houfes, moftly new and well built. Being the only port of 

 confequence in Maryland, it commands almoft the entire trade of that 

 ftate, and competes with Philadelphia for a ftiare of that of Kentucky, 

 Teneflee, part of Virginia, and the weft part of Pennfylvania itlelf. It 

 is furrounded by about fixty mills for manufiduring flour, which is the 

 chief article of exportation ; and thence the great rife of the town dur- 



* The following (latcment of the capital article of fuperfine flour for feveral years affords one of 

 many proofs, which might be adduced, that the prodigious rife in the amount of the exports is more 

 the eff^edl of the increafe of price that of quantity of produce. 



Barrels in 1791 315,785 



1792 433,06s 



1793 416,021 



Barrels in 1794 299,287 



1795 294,011 



J79O 195,157 



There was alfo fome fecond flour exported, which never exceeded 5,000 barrels in any of thefe years, 

 f The banks of Philadelphia have been already noticed, p. 325. 9 



