and that this will not interfere with or
prevent their raising flax or cotton, or any other produces for
exportation, unmanufactured."

A pamphlet entitled _A Description of South Carolina_ states that cotton
was imported to Carolina from the West Indies, and it is probable that
the early shipments from this country were of this West Indian cotton,
although English writers mentioned it as an import of Carolina cotton.

Donnell says: "The first regular exportation of cotton from Charleston
was in 1785, when one bag arrived at Liverpool, per ship Diana, to John
and Isaac Teasdale & Co. The exportation of cotton from the United
States could not have been much earlier, for we find in 1784 eight bags
shipped to England were seized on the ground of fraudulent importation,
as it was not believed that so much cotton could be produced in the
United States."

The exportation during the next six years was successively 6, 14, 109,
389, 842, and 81 bags.

Dana gives the following _data_ concerning the export movement from 1739
to 1793:

"1739. Samuel Auspourguer, a Swiss living in Georgia, took
over to London, at the time of the controversy about the
introduction of slaves, a sample of cotton raised by him in
Georgia. This we may call, in the absence of a better
starting-point, the first export.

"1747. During this year several bags of cotton, valued at L3
11s. 5d. per bag, were exported from Charleston. Doubts as
to this being of American growth have been expressed, but as
cotton had been cultivated in South Carolina for many years
there does not seem to be any reason for such doubts.
Besides, English writers mention it as an import of Carolina
cotton.

"1753. 'Some cotton' is mentioned among the exports of
Carolina in 1753, and of Charleston in 1757.

"1764. Eight (8) bags of cotton imported into Liverpool from
the United States.

"1770. Three (3) bales shipped to Liverpool from New York;
ten (10) bales from Charleston; four (4) from Virginia and
Maryland; and three (3) barrels from North Carolina.

"1784. About fourteen (14) bales shipped to great Britain,
of which eight (8) were seized as improperly entered. [See
above.]

"1785. Five (5) bags imported at Liverpool.

"1786. Nine hundred (900) pounds imported into Liverpool.

"1787. Sixteen thousand three hundred fifty (16,350) pounds