utwards.
British East Indies, dolls. 2,293,012 406,543 7,400 5,655
Dutch ditto 582,159 581,149 3,497 8,669
Spanish ditto 283,685 15,919 2,647 222
Asia generally 377,842 434,037 479 2,593
China 7,892,327 1,010,483 15,550 8,123
Mexico, 1/2 4,033,034 5,265,053 18,225 15,768
Chili 787,409 1,476,355 2,535 9,191
Peru 618,412 58,863 493 685
South Seas 27,348 97,169 39,506 280
N. W. Coast America " 118,813 45,886
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16,595,228 9,464,384 136,218 51,216
1/4 freights, &c. &c. 4,123,807 2,388,093 51,216 -------
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20,719,035 11,852,477 187,434
11,852,477 ---------- --------
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Total United States 32,571,512
Ditto specie 5,000,000
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Grand total, dollars 37,571,512--Sterling, L7,827,398 at 4_s._2_d._
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_General Trade and Tonnage._

Value Trade. Extent Tonnage.
British L17,500,000 221,818
United States 7,827,398 187,434
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Total L25,327,398 409,252 tons.
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To the above should be added all the specie sent both by Great Britain
and the United States to the Eastern World, particularly to China, to
purchase cargoes, from the States alone about 7,000,000 dolls.; also
all the tonnage which goes, or would go, from one coast to another in
the three republics of Venezuela, Guatemala, and Mexico. To these
states, such a communication would prove of inestimable value, and
tend very greatly to add to the revenue to be obtained from the (p. 104)
traffic by it. There are other nations, also, besides Great Britain
and the United States, which traffic with the quarters of the world
already specifically alluded to, particular