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TIMBER 
the following ports in the order of precedence as to 
quantity : —London, Cardiff, Hull, Liverpool, Hartlepool, 
Manchester, Newport, the Tyne, Grimsby, Grangemouth, 
Glasgow, Bo'ness ; the balance being distributed amongst 
more than one hundred other ports. 
Kussia and Sweden supply us with about two-fifths of 
the quantity imported, and about half their total export, 
and we pay these two countries for timber something over 
£10,000,000 a year, or nearly double the amount which we 
pay for timber to British Colonies. Over 80 per cent, of 
the total imports into Great Britain are conifers. 
