396 JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
Mauures (tons) “ . 228 : . £1,592 
Cubic Nitre (cwts.). . 7,850 ‘ . £6,005 
Petroleum (gals.) ‘ . 18,586 : : £837 
Spirits, Foreign (gals.) . 1,476 ; : £709 
Wine (gals.) . ; psu ip op i 4 . £3,566 
Other articles . ; ik Fee : . S4,677 
The ‘‘ other articles’? mentioned in these lists amount in value 
to no less a sum than £59,868; and I am much indebted to Mr. 
Brent, the hon. secretary of this Institution, the Surveyor of the 
Customs here, for the kindness he has shown and the pains he has 
taken to supply me with some particulars of this large item in 
value. 
Besides the articles enumerated our principal exports consist of 
malt, bran, china clay and fire bricks, starch, earthenware, pitch 
(? product of coal), slates, herrings, black lead, gunpowder, paper, 
sheep, biscuits, confectionary, cement, cotton manufactures, muskets, 
limestone. 
The only comments I have to make on this list are, that the 
trade to the Channel Islands, which is large here, is ranked as an 
export trade; and the cotton manufactures and muskets, no doubt 
not our own local produce, and probably the only exports brought 
to this port by railway, were exported to Africa. 
The progress of our export trade is shown by the number and 
tonnage of ships cleared, but I have only means of distinguishing 
those which cleared with cargo from those which cleared with 
ballast in the years 1875 and 1876. 


No of Ships. Tons. 
1860 : : ; ; 388 2 : ‘ . 61,841 
1865. : ; ; 365 : . ; . 47,624 
LO, le ey , ; 4 436 : : ‘ . 61,095 
150s : Cargoes 275 : 3 : . 28,436 
* : : Ballast 583 ; = : » . J6;24a) 
Total . 858 ; , : . 99,667 
C76 = : Cargoes 284 : . : . 30,316 
: A : Ballast 434 : ; ; - +18,966 
Total . 718 ; ; ; . 109,282 
1877 Cargoes and Ballast 793 : 5 : . 180,525 
The progress of our export trade is thus shown to be from 388 
ships of 51,341 tons in 1860, to 793 ships of 180,525 tons in 1877, 
and the increase in the cargoes exported, comparing 1875 with 
1876, is about 7000 tons. 
