THE PENNSYLVANIA OIL TRADE. 
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latter interest only does petroleum yield the palm. As an element of 
trade it exceeds in importance and magnitude the gold production of the 
Pacific States ; and by its substitution, as an illuminator, for other and 
more expensive oils, unestimated and ineetimable millions are saved. 
The amount of business done in the present year is not so great as 
two years ago, when the business was in the acme of its furore. Neverthe- 
less, the shipments from this part are greater than they were. The 
following table will show the relative export of petroleum from New 
York for the years 1863 and 1864 :— 
1864. 
1863. 
To Liverpool . . . gals. 734,755 
2,156,851 
London . 
1,430,710 
2,576,331 
Glasgow, &c. 
368,402 
414,943 
Bristol . 
29,124 
71,912 
Falmouth 
318,492 
623,176 
Grangemouth 

425,384 
Cork, &c . " 
3,310,362 
1,532,201 
Bowling, . 
87,164 

Havre . 
2,324,017 
1,774,890 
Marseilles 
1,982,075 
1,167,893 
Cette 
4,800 

Dunkirk 
232,803 

Dieppe . 
79,581 
46,000 
Kouen . 

143,046 
Antwerp 
4,149,821 
2,892,874 
Bremen . 
971,905 
903,004 
Amsterdam . 
77,041 
436 
Hamburg 
1,186,080 
1,486,155 
Rotterdam 
532,926 
757,249 
Gottenburg 
33,813 

Cronstadt . . 
409,376 
88,060 
Cadiz and Malaga . 
55,674 
33,284 
Tarragona and Alicante . 
16,823 
33,000 
Barcelona 
25,500 

Gibraltar. 
69,101 
308,450 
Oporto . 
17,474 
2,339 
Palermo .... 
7,983 
57,111 
Genoa and Leghorn 
635,121 
329,674 
Trieste .... 
165,175 
3,000 
Alexandria, Egypt . 
4,000 

Lisbon .... 
167,195 
64,662 
Canary Islands 
3,358 
5,125 
Madeira .... 

400 
Bilboa .... 
2,500 

China and the 
East Indie 
s . 
34,33S 
36,924 
