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from Great Britain to the United States. They no doubt 
touched at a British port to unload part of their cargo of 
continental goods and then with the rest of their cargo they 
cleared for America. On the other hand, some of the British 
and American vessels which entered the United States from 
Great Britain brought other than British goods. Some of 
these had gathered up part of their cargoes at Dutch and 
French ports before clearing for the United States. That is, 
while some of the 429 British and American ships brought 
goods from Holland and France as well as from Great Britain, 
the 459 Dutch, French, and Danish vessels could legally bring 
no British goods to America, but only continental goods. 
What proportion of these 459 vessels were Dutch is not 
known. Certainly, far more than one-third were Dutch. But 
even at this rate there would be another 153 Dutch vessels 
bringing cargoes of Dutch and continental goods to the 
United States each year by way of Great Britain. When 
these are added to the ‘H45 to 224” vessels which went annual- 
ly directly from Dutch American ports, the result indicates 
something like 300 vessels sailing annually from the Nether- 
lands to the United States and carrying Dutch and continen- 
tal goods exclusively as compared to 429 British and Amer- 
ican ships clearing annually from ports of Great Britain 
and carrying at least some goods that they had brought from 
a European port before touching at the British port. There 
is no way of comparing tonnage and cargo-carrying capacity, 
but one would at least be safe in saying that the quantity of 
goods coming from Dutch ports to America was considerably 
over half that of British-produced goods entering America. 
By the shipping it would appear to be more than three-fourths 
that amount. The number of vessels and the amount of goods 
going from the United States to the Netherlands bore about 
the same ratio to the vessels and to the goods going to Great 
Britain. There were fewer Dutch ships going to their home 
ports by way of Great Britain than vice versa, but there were 
more going directly from the United States to the Nether- 
lands than directly from the Netherlands to the United States, 
thus balancing the account. 
After this explanation it will be readily seen why a mere 
comparison of thd number of entrances into the United States 
directly from Great Britain to the number of entrances direct- 
ly from the Netherlands without references to complete voy- 
