96 



A. D. 1796. 



The following is a view of the fliipping employed in the export trade 

 of Charlefton, and of the quantities of the principal articles and value 

 of the whole, for feveral years. 



Years. 



17S3 

 1784 



1785 



1793 

 1793 



1794 



1795 



half of") 



I796i 



value in dollars. 



Total 



amount, ia 



dollars. 



440,627 



781,0-10 



] ,929,400 



3,371,891 



3,834,717 

 3,1 12,526 

 3,869,015 

 5,984,198 



2,566,619 



Savannah in Georgia has long continued to be in fome meafure fub- 

 fidiary to Charlefton, but has gradually obtained a fliare of independent 

 trade, which, by the induftry of its cultivators, the acquifition of the 

 moft valuable article of cotton f , and the fpirit of its merchants, is 

 <juickly increafmg. 



Virginia and the flates to the fouthward of it, not having a fufficient 

 quantity of fhipping to convey their produce to a market, have been 

 accuftomed to depend upon European vefTels for freight ; and in time 

 of war thofe of the northern flates, which poflefs more veilels than pro- 

 duce, become in a great meafure their carriers. 



It is worthy of obfervation, that no town in America, excluded from 

 intercourfe with the Ocean, has ever arifen to eminence. Neither does 

 the pofTeffion of a good harbour, unlefs there be alfo a convenient nav- 

 igable communication with the interior country, very much advance the 

 profperity of a town. The towns of New England, the mod antient 

 in North America, and pofTeffing the befl harbours on the Ocean, have 

 iiever profpered equally with Philadelphia and fome other towns of later 

 foundation, which are feated on confiderable rivers, the produce being 

 in general too bulky to bear the expenfe of land carriage. 



Lake Ontario, a part of the boundary between the territories of the 

 United dates and thofe of the king of Great Britain, is navigated by 

 half a dozen of armed velTels in the king's fervice, and a confiderable 

 number of veffels, fome of them as large as 200 tuns, belonging to in- 

 dividuals. In their pafTage they are ufually, two or three days out of 

 fight of land ; and they fleer by the compafs, and meafure their way 



* In this column are included lumber of all 

 kinds, naval ftore?, peltry, and articles re-exported. 



-{■ Since cotlou has become an important article, 

 and vail quantities of indigo have been brought 

 from the Eall-Iiiuies, the planters of Georgia have 

 entirely given up raillr^g iilk-worms, and they, and 

 alfo thofe of Ciroiina, have abandoned the cultiv- 

 ation of indigo. In vain the Britiih government 



beftowed confiderable fums in premiums to pufii 

 forward thefe two branches of induftry : and the 

 dereli(£lion of them, together with the extended 

 cultivation of cotton, is one of a thoufand proofs 

 of the powerful effeft of a bride demand, and the 

 incfficacy of piemiums wit'.iout it, in ellablifliing 

 any branch of trade. 



