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the United States and Great Britain during those three years 
was increasing. 
If now these statistics for the vessels between the United 
States and Great Britain be set beside those giving the vessels 
between the United States and the Netherlands, comparison 
can be made. 
TABLE XII 
1787 
1788 
1789 
Average 
Total number of all vessels entering the Nether- 
lands directly from the United States 
Total average number of British and American 
72 
196 
201 
173 
vessels entering ports of Great Britain directly 
from the United States^*’® 
420 
420 
420 
420 
or^®® 
(406) 
(406) 
448 
420 
1787 
1788 
1789 
Average 
Total number of all vessels clearing from the 
Netherlands directly for the United States. . . . 
Total average number of British and American 
71 
145 
224 
147 
vessels clearing from Great Britain directly for 
the United States^®^ 
429 
429 
429 
429 
or^'^* 
(377) 
(377) 
532 
429 
From the above it appears that the average number of all 
vessels entering the Netherlands directly from the United 
States annually during the three years 1787-1789 was a little 
over 41 per cent of the total average number of British and 
American vessels that entered Great Britain annually from the 
United States, and rising in the last year of the period to 
201/448 or 45 per cent. The average number of all vessels 
clearing annually from the Netherlands directly for the 
United States during this period was 147/429 or 35 per cent, 
mounting in the year of 1789 to 224/532 or 42 per cent. Stat- 
ing these facts in general terms, one could say that the total 
shipping employed directly between the ports of the Nether- 
lands and the United States varied from one-third to one-half 
^^Ubid.. IV, 198. 
Atcheson (ed.). Collection of Reports and Papers on the Navigation and Trade, 72. 
^^Uhid., 72. 
Macpherson, Annals of Commerce ... of the British Empire and Other Coun- 
tries, IV, 199. 
