Navigation and Commerce. 145 
admitted errors in the returns. The first article is on the com¬ 
merce between Hayti and the United States: 
“ The navigation of the United States in Hayti employs, 
under the American flag, one half of the foreign ships that fre¬ 
quent our ports. As these vessels are generally smaller than 
those which come from Europe, they represent only forty-two 
per cent, of the total tonnage. But it should be remarked that, 
thanks to their full cargoes both in arriving and returning, they 
can fix their rate of freight at more favorable terms than then- 
competitors. The remark which has almost become an axiom, 
that the navigation of a people develops itself in proportion to 
the products exported, finds here a new proof. The value of 
the importations from the United States, and the amount of the 
duty paid by them to the treasury, is about forty per cent, of the 
total. It represents $2,250,000, [worth of imports,] of which 
ninety per cent, arrive under the American flag. The chief of 
these importations are pork, in its different forms, and flour, which 
amount to about fifty per cent, of them. Subjoined are the 
figures of the quantities introduced, and of the indication of 
their value: 
Candles. 
$20,000 
Soap. 
215,000 
Butter and Cheese. 
40,000 
Articles of which similar are 
Gold and Silver. 
65,000 
produced in the country: 
Furniture and Manufac¬ 
Lumber and Shingles. 
70,000 
tured Wood. 
25,000 
Bice. 
110,000 
Cotton Stuffs. 
220,000 
Other Articles. 
65,000 
Flour. 
500,000 
Tobacco, in Leaves and 
Salt Beef. 
20,000 
Manufactured. 
150,000 
Fish. 
230,000 
Befined Sugar. 
15,000 
Pork, Ham, and Lard... 
Iron. 
475,000 
30,000 
$2,250,000 
“ Pork, building woods, tobacco, rice, refined sugar, amount to 
forty per cent, on the total importation. In proportion as our 
general industry shall develop itself, the importation of these 
articles will diminish; for we are quite as well situated as the 
United States to produce such articles. It is greatly to be 
13 
