The History of British Commerce From the Earliest Times volume 3
The History of British Commerce From the Earliest Times volume 3
George L George Lillie Craik
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of butter, 4033 barrels of rice, 8548 lbs. Of loaf-sugar, 85, 035 lbs. Of soaj), onions to the value of 6378/. , 35, 922, 168 feet of j)ine, oak, and cedar boards, 1 1, 1 16, 141 staves and headings, 3, 817, 899 hoops, 62, 099 shook hogs- heads, 3184 heads of cattle, 6692 horses, 12, 797 sheep and hogs, and 183, 893 lbs. Of tallow and lard : to Africa the only considerable export was 292, 966 gallons of New England rum, of which sj»irit also, as we have already seen, a nmch larger quantity wiis... sent from the New England colonies to the Indians of Nova Scotia and Canada. * • We now return to notice the most significant facts illustrative of the history of the other great branches of our commerce during the interval i'rom the i)eace of 1763 to the commencement of the American revolution. By one of the articles of the treaty of peace tiie French had lilx>rty to fish, under certain regulations, on a jMirt of the coast of Newfouiulland, and also to dry their fish * Those details are abstracted from tables given by Mac- plicrson, Annals, iii.
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