Table exhibiting the description, quantity, and value of the various articles of domestic production exported from twenty-three Atlantic ports of the United States to the colonies of New the year 1851. Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and Prince Edward Island, during Here is an export trade of domestic products from some only of our Atlantic seaports to the lower colonies during the past year, amounting to more than two and a half millions of dollars. Yet this is not the whole of the exports from the ports indicated to those colonies, as will be seen by the table which follows, exhibiting the description, quantities, and value of the various articles of foreign production exported from the same twenty-three ports to the four lower colonies in 1851. Table exhibiting the description, quantities, and value of the various articles of foreign production exported from the ports mentioned to the four lower colonies in 1851. 180 5 59 302 69,760 11,321 20,869 25,082 159,013 10,608 21,913 354 299 1,920 1,317 Spirits. Raisins and dried fruits. Hides. Cordage & hemp. Cotton manufac tures. Unenumerated. 16,816 $27, 623 20, 415 $14,534 6,711 3,545 549 71,910 297, 395 5,783 19, 263 804 334 732, 202 3, 118 235, 21124, 273 43, 215 30, 634 42, 974 20, 009 34, 334 24,027 21, 121 111, 231 1,065, 594 There is exhibited in the preceding table an export trade amounting to $3,700,100, already existing with the lower colonies; and there will be seen by the statement which follows, the nature and value of the various articles imported from the lower colonies into the Atlantic ports of the Union already named during the year 1851: Districts. Fish. Coal. Plaster. Grind-Lumber. Potatoes. Oats and Firewood. Hides and Sugar. 18 492 533 1,617 1,378 12, 251 1,432 15, 886 10, 221 4,020 128 2, 122 6,774 666 975 536 1,110 5,003 Boston and Charlestown 2,969 376, 916 32,703 11, 259 96, 124 15, 215 52, 894 41,793 42, 475 11,731 New York $1,817 310, 276 160, 635 949, 211 17,391 21,967 9, 646 10,799 9,387 18,685 Philadelphia 11,829 11,342 42,556 3,995 271,681 1,807 Baltimore.. 1,725 50,083 24, 246 179 1,017 520 Wilmington 25,962 To exhibit in a more condensed form, and place the value of this colonial trade in a position to be better understood and appreciated, the following statement is submitted, showing the total value of domestic and foreign exports, and the value of colonial imports, in 1851, deduced from the preceding statements. The preceding table shows a trade which has, almost without attracting any portion of public attention, already sprung up, and been extended to the amount of nearly five millions and a quarter of dollars during the past year. To show further the importance of this same colonial trade in encouraging our mercantile marine, the following table of shipping, inward and outward, during 1851, to and from nine ports of the United States only, and the colonies of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and Prince Edward Island, distinguishing American from British shipping, is also submitted: |