144 Scientific LiielUgence. [xo. 3, xew series, 
last 2 year?, and the extraordinary increase in the trade, since the 
year 1843, 'uhen the last proposal for a Pier was laid before thfc 
public, will be found by examination of Statement B.* 
By a Memorandum lately prepared by the Chamber of Com- 
merce, it appears that the average number of boats daily employ- 
ed throughout the year is 70, Avhich mak6'4 trips in the day. These 
boats in fine weather carry two tons of measured goods or one ton 
and a half of dead weight : but when the surf is high the load is 
greatly reduced, as sails cannot be advantageously used in these 
peculiar boats, they are worked entirely by maijjLial labour, and 
eleven men are required to make good the passage over the surf. 
The cost of conveying goods by such means is necessarily exces- 
sive. The minimum hire of a boat to the usual anchorage of the 
square rigged vessels a distance of about one mile is one Rupee 
and a half. To the outer anchorage about 1 J mile is 3 Rupees. 
The cost of a beat to the anchorage of the country vessels is fifteen 
Annas and for passenger boats to the shipping, tlie charge is 3| 
Rupees. 
To these heavy charges upon each load of one and a half or two 
tons, has to be added, the hire of tarpawlings lo secure in some 
degree the cargo from the spray of the sea ; and also the pay of a 
watching peon whose presence in each boat is necessary to prevent 
the pillage which from the nature of the vessels employed, and 
the rough sea they navigate, the police cannot prevent by observa- 
* B. 
Total Tonnage of Vessels arriving at the Port of Madras for the year 
aud iS5o. 
Tonnage. 
English and 
other yessels 
Country Tes- 
sels. 
Total Ton- 
nage. 
From l?t Sept. ISio.to 31st Avisr. 1S14.. 
From 1st Jany. to 31st Dec. lS-5-5 
1.23 297 
2,06,879 
7G,124 
1,08,107 
1,99.421 
3,14,9S6 
Increase ... 
83,582 
31,983 
1,1.5,56.5 
