THE TRADE OF PLYMOUTH. 395 
The variation in each five years depends a great deal on the 
harvest. The increase since 1860 is double in respect to the 
number of tons, though the number of ships has increased at a 
much lower rate, indicating the use of a larger class of ships. 
I now proceed to the export trade of Plymouth, which is small 
in comparison with the imports, as we have no great leading 
industry here, and our railway communication with the industrial 
centres is defective; but it is nevertheless considerable, and well 
worth our attention. 
The value of our Exports was in 
Wea7 42%. .0-~ £49,201 1875 . . . . £95,084 
VERO Soa oe 1-633.914 LSTOp ee L174 
S66 eS RII BIE or pro ramon a DUG H 
1S7O VU: . EGF O77 
These figures are taken from the published statistics of the 
Custom House to the year 1876; for the year 1877 I am indebted 
to Mr. Bourne. They are the value of the exports proper of the 
produce and manufacture of the United Kingdom; but our exports 
consist also of foreign and colonial merchandise re-exported, valued 
in 1877 at £33,724; the total value of our exports in 1877 was 
therefore £165,374. 
Mr. Bourne has kindly supplied me with extracts from the 
Custom House statistics, which show that these exports consisted 
in 1877 of produce and manufactures of the United Kingdom 
exported. 
Quantities. Value. 
Candles (cwts.) : . 2,085 ? oe EES 
Chemical preparations (arsenic) .... , . £26,611 
Products of coal, peat, or shale .... ; » £38,705 
Leather, tanned (cwt.) . 148 : . £1,366 
Machinery : ; pale ° « 16b,091 
Manures : : Cues ° - £20,605 
Provisions ; , Wiles a « ; ON We 
Soap (cwt.) . ° aqt, 102 : - £1,566 
Spirits, British (gals.) wen, 801 d : £546 
Sugar, refined (cwts.) . 5,530 : - £8,134 
Other articles . : eee se : - £65,191 
Foreign and colonial merchandise re-exported— 
Wheat (cwts.) . : ~ 1,092 : . £4,680 
Barley (cwts.) . ; EY : . £2,404 
Maize (cwts.) . : . 6,617 : . £2,016 
Guano (tons) . : +). 676 : . £8,238 
