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TABLE Explanatory—continued. Quarters
of Grain
Article III. Brought forward. overhead. During the$5 years mentioned, there were exported from Great Britain, of the feveral kinds of Grain overhead ee sm= 31:366,480 And there were only imported, during all that fpace,— 1,335:907 Balance in favour of exportation—== 3503055713
For the 22 years from 1763 to 1784 inclufive, there have been imported,
of foreign Grain, into Great Britain,—— 9:937»14X
And, in that fpace, there have been only exported—— 5:966,430 BE rare mere
Balance in favour of importation—— 39703711
Article IV.—ConNsuMPTION.
If eight millions of people make up the population of Great Britain, and if thefe require 16 millions of auaïters of the feveral forts of Grain overhead, yearly, for their fubfftence, at the rate of two quarters for each perfon; and if, of that number of people, two millions and a half of them are employed in bufbandry, the true confumption of the kingdom, is the quantity neceflary for the fupport of the other five millions and a half, after maintaining the people and cattle employed in raifing the Grain, amounting to===— I1,000,009
Article V.—PRODUCTION.
In years when Great Britain fupports herfelf, without receiving or fend-
ing out any Grain, or when the quantities exported and imported are
equal, the produétion and the confumption will alfo be equal, each
amounting to——— I1,000,000 =<‘. e= É as= But in years when Great Britain exports more than fhe imports, her pro-
duce muft have an increafe; and in years when fhe imports more than
fhe exports, her produce muft have fuffered a proportional decreafe.. L, During the 55 years already enumerated, the average ex- Quarters. portation having been yearly—— 579;300 And deduéting from thence the average yearly importation 24,289 We have remaining a clear yeariy exportation of—_— 546,01: Don ee ue AT 1= i= 7 av ce+hefe ec ve ce se Vhich makes the average yearly produce of thefe ss years to be 11,546,017 Q 1- ñ e 1-= 50 that our exportation yearly then, Was aS I(O:2] 3 due. ie. 2; of the produce. And the importation as_— I 0 475 3 œ OO —— Drame— à.= ne ci ss