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PROCEEDINGS OF THE 
The following is the amount of importation and net reve- 
nue for several of the intermediate years, viz. : 
Net Revenue. 
Great Hundreds. £ 
1820 .... 36,265 405,751 
1825 (a very large amount) 77,074 942,934 
1830 .... 56,204 560,521 
1834 .... 67,105 601,914 
1835 .... 61,731 582, 4S5 
The average importation, consumption, and revenue for the 
fifteen years from 1821 to 1835 inclusive, is as follows : 
Import. Consumption. Net Revenue. 
Gt. Hunds. Gt. Hunds. £ 
53,868 53,440 629,266 
But it should be observed that though the consumption is on 
the average less than the importations, still in many years it 
is much greater, and this must be attributed either to the 
working up of the old stock, or the use of home grown tim- 
ber ; although I am not sure that the imports of the latter 
are included in this estimate. The amount of exportations it 
is scarcely worth while to consider in so general a view as the 
present, it being not more than 750 gt. hunds., about 1 in 
every 72 . 
The countries whence deals and deal ends are principally 
procured for our home consumption are our North Ame- 
rican possessions, as might be inferred from the immense 
difference in the duties on timber brought thence and that 
coming from foreign countries ; this difference has been in- 
stituted for the purpose of protecting the trade in these 
Colonies, which consists chiefly of timber ; and the very 
great disproportion in the duties has been found necessary 
from the very great superiority of the Baltic timber, that is 
the timber from the north of Europe ; which superiority 
would counterbalance a very large increase of outlay in the 
first instance, hence we have an exorbitant duty laid upon 
good timber, for the purpose of forcing us to use bad timber ; 
or as it is said, to protect the North American trade. It may 
be useful to compare the accounts of the importations of 
deals and deal ends for any one year from the countries bor- 
