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48 APPENDIX, No VIIL

TABLE Explanatory of Sundry Articles in the preceding Work.

L Juarters Article I.ENGLAND. es £ overhead. From the year 1700, when the old fyftem of the Corn Laws was complet- ed, until the year 1763, that the great importation of Foreign Grain commenced, the Corn Trade was entirely in the hands of Britain, and importation of Foreign Grain was little known*. For$s years after the Union, that is, from the year 1708 to the year 1762 incluñve, there were exported of Grain from England, Of Wheat and Flour 12,603,266 Rye, Peafe, and Beans Barley and Malt 5 Oats and Oatmeal 122,106 Total Exportation from England, in thefe 55 years_ 29:467,676 By the above proportion of Grain exported, it would appear, that the ge- neral crop of England confifts of about eight-twentieth parts of Wheat,| and twelve-twentieths of inferior grain. Yearly average Exportation during thefe 55 years 526;770 Article I[.ScoTLAND. During the above 55 years, there were exported from Scotland, Of Wheat and Flour 105,440 Rye, Peafe, and Beans, 16,433 , and Malt:,377,053 Oats and Oatmeal 390,878 Total Exportation from Scotland, in thefe 55 years_ 1,898,804 Yearly average Exportation during thefe years_ ee= 34,524 By the above proportion it would appear, that the general crop of Scot- land confifts of one-eightéenth of Wheat, and feventeen-eighteenths of s inferior Grain. Article IHI.GREAT BRITAIN. The Exportation from Great Britain, during the above$5 years confifted Of Wheat and Flour Rye, Peafe, and Beans, Parley and Mait 15:994,699 Oats and Oatmeal> 521,984 Total Exportation from Great Britain, in thefe 55 years 31:366,480 Yearly average Exportation, during thefe years 570,300

æ Vide Particular and General Account of Exportation and Importation, Appendix No 2.