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65 The articles of exportation, with their value, are the following: the productions of the country, such as salt beef and pork, wheat, flour, and other articles of the animal and vegetable kingdoms, 17 millions; cottons 7 millions; tobacco 6 millions; lumber, soda, and other productions of the forests, 4 millions; produce of the fisheries 3 millions; manufactures of the country 2 millions, amounting in all to 39 millions. The 29 millions remaining are of foreign articles, such as woollens, linens, sugar, coffee, tea, wines and other liquors which are brought into the country, and exported again for foreign markets.

The importations from England, consist principally in woollen and cotton goods, in hardware and delft: those from Russia, Germany and Holland, in cordage, coarse linens, glass and toys; from France, in wines, sweet oil and fruits; from China, in tea and nankins; from Bengal, in white cottons and muslins; and from Spanish America, the French and English Colonies, in coffee, sugar, cocoa, molasses and rum. In the years 1806 and 1807, this commerce reached its maximum—for in the first of these two years, it amounted to 191 millions of dollars, and in the second to 211 millions—103 in exports, for the most part of foreign goods and produce, and 108 in imports. It fell in the succeeding years in consequence of the prohibitory decrees of Napoleon, and the English orders 9