480 THE FOREIGN TRADE OF GREAT BRITAIN 



Sumdum ; island in Endicott arm of Holkham Ba}', S. E. Alaska. (Not 

 Sand nor Sonndon.) 



Trots; hills, Nantucket, Mass. (Not Trott's.) 



Weweeder; ponds, Nantucket, Mass. (Not Weedweder nor Weeweder.) 

 Whitley; township, Crawford County, Ark. (Not Whitney.) 

 Wigwam; pond, Nantucket, Mass. (Not Toochka nor Toupchue.) 



SOME SIGNIFICANT FACTS CONCERNING THE FOREIGN 

 TRADE OF GREAT BRITAIN 



Mr Michael G. Mulhall contributes to the June number of the Review of Re- 

 views for Australasia an article on the subject of British trade, which presents 

 some facts of far-reaching significance with great clearness and force. The 

 article is summarized by the author in ten paragraphs, which are substantially 

 as follows : 



1. The weight of the merchandise annually imported into Great Britain has 

 multiplied fivefold in forty years, averaging at present more than one ton yearly 

 for each inhabitant. 



2. More than half of the food supply of the United Kingdom is drawn fronr 

 other countries, at an annual cost of about £5 ($24.33) per inhabitant. 



3. The mean price of imported food is now only £12 10s. (§60.83) per ton, 

 having fallen 20 per cent in the last twenty years. 



4. Most of the imported food could be raised in England, but at much greater 

 cost, to the detriment of the working classes. 



5. The consumption of fiber in the mills of Great Britain has doubled in 

 thirty years, and exceeds the aggregate consumption in France and Germany. 



6. The importation of metals and minerals has grown elevenfold in thirty 

 years, and the exports of hardware manufactures have doubled in value. 



7. The consumption of manufactured goods imported from foreign countries 

 has risen from 15s. ($3.65) per inhabitant in 1869 to 41s. ($9.98) in 1899. 



8. The value of textile goods exported is less than it was thirty years ago, 

 but the volume has risen 70 per cent. 



9. The fall of prices has been a gain to Great Britain of at least £50,000,000 

 ($243,325,000) per annum. 



10. The tendency of British trade points to a steady increase of food imports 

 and of hardware exports. 



TuK recent dredging of the Dniester has rendered the river navigable by 

 barges for a distance of 70 miles from its mouth, thus greatly facilitating the 

 Odessa grain trade. 



Thb magnitude of the Norwegian fishing inchistry cannot be better illustrated 

 than by the fact that, although the season of 1899 was one of the poorest oiv 

 record, the catch included .34,500,000 cod and 136,600 tons of herring. 



