398 JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
It thus appears that the coasting trade at Plymouth is a very large 
one, due to the facilities the harbour offers for shipping of all 
descriptions, and also due no doubt to the want of facilities for 
inland trade already noticed. 
The Intanp Trane is placed fourth in the division of our trade, 
and I can only describe it by giving the quantity of goods in tons 
which have been carried out from, and brought into, the Port of 
Plymouth by the Great Western and South Western Railways. 
In the year 1877 the Great Western Railway carried, outwards, 
199,908 tons; inwards, 123,228 tons; South Western Railway, 
outwards and inwards, 31,516 tons; total together, 354,652 tons. 
I will only add respecting this traffic that large quantities of 
corn, coals, and manure are distributed inland from here. 
The fifth division of our trade—the Internat or Town TrapE— 
consisting of all that we import or receive by land or by sea for 
our own consumption, needs merely to be noticed as a necessary 
division in an inquiry into the nature of our trade, separating our 
trade from that which is serviceable to the country at large from 
that which is only of service to ourselves. When we consider that 
we have a population of 150,000 within our port, ranking eighth 
in importance in the cities and towns of England, we may conclude 
that our internal trade is large. And as far as I have opportunities 
of judging I think it to be sound and good, not being subject to so 
many vicissitudes as the trade of other communities, who may be in 
the aggregate richer, but whose trade is often in a state of variation 
from excessive activity to extreme dulness. 
The sixth and last division of the subject is the Surpprne Trae, 
and to this I must invite your particular attention. 
The number of ships which were entered at Plymouth for trade, 
including the foreign, British possessions, and coast trades, both 
with cargo and in ballast, were— 
Number, Tonnage. 
TH ASTIN. ° . ‘ 3485 ° . : - 648,224 
1872 "aa. ; . . 3503 ° ° é oib71, 147 
LB 7 Be as * . F 3709 ‘ . . - 623,855 
1874 . : . 3522 5 ; : . 696,410 
1875, . é - ‘ 0825 ° < . 669,298 
1876. ° . . 3723 : . ° . 667,751 
1877-9: ed BP Oar g ggg on OTM ED. Ben etE 
