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Dresden or beggars lace, cap and apron string tapes, plain and twisted 
Flander bedticken, Haerlem stripes, writing paper and quils, sealing 
wax and wafers, toys for children ; copper in sheets, wire, iron and brass 
of all sorts, Dutch scythes and knives, German steel, gunpowder, drugs 
from Holland; painters’ colors, Geneva, Arrack, Wines, Rhenish and 
Cordage; untarred yarns, packing, sewing and seine twine and fishing 
lines, bolting cloths, tobacco pipes, dressed hog skins, Leghorn or straw 
and chip hats; black and white peper, nutmegs, mace, cloves and cinna- 
mon, hyson, fouchy, cosgo, green and bohea teas; muslins, plain stripes 
checked and wrought ; nankeens plain and worked, dimothy and Dutch 
cord; china ware from East India, Dresden bandano, china silk. 
In another place Coxe speaks of the large demand for 
German schoolbooks in the United States and adds that these 
are imported from Holland and the Hansa towns.^'^ 
Pitkin also gives a list of imports into the United States 
from the Netherlands as follows: 
Woolen, linen and other goods paying duty according to value, 
spirits from grain, nails, spikes, lead and manufactures of lead, paints, 
steel, cheese, glass, anchors, shot, slit and hoop iron.^® 
A final source of information are the records preserved 
at the Hague and fully described in another chapter. Lists 
of goods furnished by this source confirm the statements in 
the earlier part of this chapter. Unfortunately quantities and 
values are not given. One vessel from Amsterdam for New 
York carried pepper, tea, linen, sail duck, paper, jugs, cellar 
geneva. Delft ware and ‘‘merchandise”. A vessel from Am- 
sterdam to Charleston carried “plows, pans, baskets, jugs, 
wooden shoes, wine, cellar geneva” and “merchandise”. 
^nhid., IX. 178. 
Pitkin, A statistical View of the Commerce of the United States, 204. 
