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TABLE XIII 
1783 
1784 
1785 
1786 
1787 
1788 
1789 
Total entrances into United States from Great 
Britain per year as given in Packet^^^ 
40 
83 
117 
279 
267 
307 
312 
Multiple 
3 
3 
3 
3 
3 
3 
3 
Total actual entrances into United States per 
year from ports of Great Britain 
120 
249 
351 
837 
807 
921 
936 
It will be recalled that the lower row of figures contains 
British, American, Dutch, French, and every other kind of 
ship that entered an American port from Great Britain. If 
now the number of British and American ships so entering be 
subtracted therefrom, the difference will indicate the number 
of Dutch, French, and Scandinavian ships entering American 
ports from Great Britain. 
TABLE XIV 
1787 
1788 
1789 
Average 
Total entrances from Great Britain into ports of 
United States 
807 
921 
936 
888 
Number of British and American vessels entering 
United States from Great Britain^“ 
429 
429 
532 
429 
Dutch, French, and Scandinavian vessels entering 
United States from Great Britain 
788 
492 
404 
459 
Thus it is seen that the total average number of non- 
British and non-American vessels entering the United States 
annually from Great Britain was 459, a little more than the 
total average number of British and American vessels enter- 
ing annually from Great Britain into the United States. It 
must be further remembered that these Dutch, French, and 
Scandinavian vessels could not legally carry any British goods 
Tabulated from various notices of ships’ entrances appearing reg-ularly in the 
Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser. 
Macpherson, Annals of Commerce ... of the British Empire and Other Coun- 
tries, IV, 199; Atcheson (ed.), Collection of Reports and Papers on the Navigation and 
Trade, 72. 
