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TABLE X 
1783 
1784 
1785 
1786 
1787 
1788 
1789 
Total of 
average 
At Amsterdam 
12 
46 
39 
49 
56 
151 
155 
641 
At Rotterdam 
Total Entrances from America for 
3 
13 
9 
14 
16 
45 
46 
156 
Netherlands 
15 
60 
48 
63 
72 
196 
201 
797 
TABLE XI — Actual Clearances from Amsterdam and Rotterdam for 
American Ports 
1783 
1784 
1785 
1786 
1787 
1788 
1789 
Total of 
average 
From Amsterdam 
210 
50 
25 
30 
62 
122 
187 
607 
From Rotterdam 
Total Clearances from Netherlands 
14 
9 
3 
6 
9 
23 
37 
101 
for America 
224 
59 
21 
36 
71 
145 
224 
708 
In explanation of the above it might be well to call attention 
to the fact that the above figures indicate only the number of 
vessels that plied each year directly between ports of the 
United States and the Netherlands. There were, of course, 
also vessels that began their voyage at a Dutch port and re- 
ceived part of their cargo there, but touched at a British port 
and unloaded a part of their cargo and then continued their 
voyage to an American port. The same would be true of the 
return voyage from America to Europe. Of course, British 
laws still forbade Dutch ships carrying British goods from 
Great Britain to the United States or American goods from the 
United States to Great Britain. A British ship or American 
ship on its way from Holland to America could stop in at an 
English port and augment its cargo with British goods. A 
Dutch ship returning home from America might stop at a 
British port and take on British goods for a Dutch port. 
British and American vessels on their way to Holland from 
the United States might touch at a British port, unload a 
part of their cargo, and then proceed to the Netherlands. 
The British ship might even unload a part of the goods from 
America, take on British goods in the place of the discharged 
American goods, and proceed on her way to a Dutch port. 
