Appendix J N° 2 



3, — The following Table will shew the Proportion of 

 each Description of Vessels, classed in the Manner be- 

 fore mentioned, then employed in this Branch of Com- 

 merce, according to the best Information that can be 

 obtained: 



From the foregoing table it is evident, that the propor- 

 tion of vessels, classed under the before-mentioned de- 

 scriptions, varied according to the different colonies, now 

 forming the United States, with which the Commerce of 

 Great Britain was then carried on; the quantity of shipping 

 so employed, which belonged either to the inhabitants of 

 Great Britain, or to British merchants occasionally resident 

 in the said colonies, being much greater in the commercial 

 intercourse then carried on with the southern colonies, than 

 with the northern colonies, particularly those of New Eng- 

 land. But upon the whole, there is reason to believe, from 



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