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The quantity of tobacco imported from America into Am- 
sterdam would be 25,000 casks annually or 2,500,000 florins 
worth, while the quantity of rice so imported annually 
would amount to 60,000 casks, valued at 3,000,000 florins. 
Before leaving the matter, it might be of service to com- 
pare this with the value of the total annual exports from 
the United States to England. The exports from the United 
States to England in 1785 were valued at £893, 59U® sterling 
or $4,333,000 as contrasted with $1,000,000 value to the Neth- 
erlands. By 1788 the value of the exports from the United 
States to England had risen to only £1,023,789 sterling®® or 
a little less than $5,000,000, while the exports from the United 
States to the Netherlands had risen to more than $4,000,000. 
It appears that the export of the 12,000 casks of rice to Am- 
sterdam in 1785 was a part of a total of 59,000 tierces ex- 
ported from the United States in the first years after the 
war.®^ That is, Holland received a little better than one-fifth 
the total export of American rice. Before the Revolution and 
in 1792, the total export of rice was 142, 000®^ and 141,000 
tierces®^ respectively. The 5,000 casks of tobacco exported 
from the United States to Amsterdam in 1785 was a part of 
a total export of about 36,200 casks to all Europe, or about 
one-seventh of the total and about one-sixth of that to Eng- 
land.®^ By 1787 and 1788 the proportion going to Holland 
had considerably increased, and the total export must have 
nearly doubled since the export of tobacco reached 101,350 
casks by 1791. It should be noted in conclusion that the 
quantity and value of exports from the United States to the 
Netherlands was somewhat larger than the exports from the 
Netherlands to the United States during this period.®^ Very 
little of a statistical character is known concerning the quan- 
tity or value of the latter, since no records were kept at Amer- 
ican ports of goods entering. But there are general state- 
Pitkin, A Statistical View of the Commerce of the United States, 30. 
so /bid., 30. 
0^ John Drayton, A View of South Carolina (Charleston, 1802), 166. 
02 David Ramsay, History of South Carolina, from its First Settlement in 1670, to 
the Year 1808 (2 vols., Charleston, 1809), II, 205. 
00 Coxe, A View of the United States of America, 417. 
04 William Tatham, An Historical and Practical Essay on the Culture and Coonmerce 
of Tobacco (London, 1800), 304. 
00 Coxe, op. cit., 409 ; Pitkin, op, eit., 108, 
