West Coast of America, by those who were with Captain Cook, in his last voyage of discovery, induced others to engage in this trade. The enterprise of the Americans led them very early to engage in these long and hazardous trading voyages. The first of the kind undertaken from the United States, was from Boston in 1788, in a ship commanded by Captain Kendrick. This trade, at first, afforded great profits, to the concerned, and it has, ever since the year 1788, been carried on from the United States, to a considerable extent, and with greater or less profit. The furs are purchased from the Indians, many hundred miles along the coast, principally with articles of foreign merchandize, suited to the wants of the natives of that country. In 1800, the value of goods shipped to the North-West Coast, and to the South Seas, was $827,748; a part of these were undoubtedly destined to the Spanish settlements on the Pacific Ocean. Not only has the North-West Coast been explored, by the enterprise of the Americans for furs, but every island in the South Seas, and every part of the continent of South-America, has been visited, in search of seal skins for the same market. These sealing voyages were also, at first, very profitable, and induced many others to engage in them. The business, however, was overdone—the seal, in a few years, became so scarce, as not to be worth the pursuit. The value of this trade, in furs and seal skins, has been many millions to the United States.

Russia,

TABLE No. I.

Value of Imports in each year, from 1795 to 1801.

802,069

376,739

400,858

999,770 3,035,511

285,176 465,041 343,428 225,885
2,329,273 2,818,746 2,416,088 1,117,321 2,139,870
2,614,449 3,283,787 2,759,516 1,343,206 2,941,939 1,376,509|3,436,369

1,329,952 943,227 2,404,828 1,757,371 662,590 775,541 2,529,128
2,342,957 3,703,081 2,178,426 2,475,494 3,929,101 2,800,760 1,987,612
26,706 211,626 1,029,995 2,305,344 1,446,335 3,556,320 4,432,733
3,699,615 4,857,934 5,613,249|6,538,209 6,038,026 7,132,627 8,949,473

England, Man and Berwick,
Guernsey, Jersey, Sark, &c.

Scotland,

21,108,350 28,689,939 24,464,911, 15,068,012 25,870,773 29,579,426 34,326,466
16,530 4,378 55,688; 55,609 25,922 144,357 120,588
678,213 1,241,385 1,501,481 1,748,600 2,077,940 2,624,041 3,967,457
1,510,028 1,992,983 1,280,987 458,549 1,158,584 529,235 1,104,707

British African Ports,

742,523 2,427,717 1,764,290 2,977,324 1,521,213 3,391,027 5,134,456|
6,426,091 6,301,534 3,045,045 2,925,739 6,083,372 5,774,411 6,968,321

115,892

6,540 10,356 21,714 41,777 18,176 37,184
297,291 276,810 319,298 215,533 207,451 340,027 427,495
30,972,215 41,127,345 32,620,643 23,753,241 37,211,919 42,577,590 52,213,522
78,909 9,096
9,086 2,089 101,507
1,584,524 2,167,390 2,755,677 3,738,763 6,919,425 4,996,886 4,585,250
3,671,331 1,835,066 3,045,796 1,371,727 901,018 74,228 1,013,690|
15,751,758 15,743,774 14,030,337 15,380,091 2,022,929 9,335,111 13,593,255
804,928 1,464,174 996,794 1,116,284| 262,221 234,984
20,228,017/19,043,014 18,072,927 17,868,102 3,186,168 9,644,323 14,606,945

Italy,

2,223,777 2,128,326 2,138,305 1,421,346 1,314,984 1,295,736|

319,653 268,237 852,408 726,209 753,484 1,104,833

Africa,

(generally)

87 49,990

China and East-Indies, do.

West-Indies,

do.

Europe,

do.

1,023,068

30,918

23,171

N. West Coast and South Seas,

Total,

69,756,258 81,436,164 75,379,406 68,551,700 79,069,148 91,252,768 111,363,511

609
219 10,988
1,144,103 2,459,410 2,319,964 2,309,304 3,219,262 4,613,463
85,186 13,050 52,898 16,873 101,397 26,937
2,562 16,825 20,160
23,441

19,465

TABLE No. II.

Value of Exports in each year from 1795 to 1802.

2,884,417 7,875,364 9,384,896 7,434,945 5,851,503 5,669,016 6,922,372 5,966,858