whole was saved for seed. Part was planted by the proprietor next year at Ashapoo, and the remainder given away to his friends in small quantities for the same purpose. They all succeeded. From that time the culture of indigo was common, and in a year or two it became an article of export."

In the year 1748, (21 of George II.) a bounty of six pence on the pound, on Plantation indigo, when it was worth three fourths of the price of the best French indigo, was granted by the British Parliament. This increased its culture in South-Carolina, and in 1754, two hundred sixteen thousand nine hundred and twenty-four pounds of indigo were exported from that Province. From November 1760 to September 1761, three hundred ninety-nine thousand three hundred and sixty-six pounds were exported; and shortly before the American Revolution, the export amounted to one million one hundred and seven thousand six hundred and sixty pounds.*

In the year 1794, one million five hundred fifty thousand eight hundred and eighty pounds were exported from the United States, being the greatest quantity exported in any one year. Probably a considerable part of this was foreign indigo.

Since the planting of cotton has become general in South-Carolina and Georgia, the culture of indigo has been in a great measure neglected.

MANUFACTURES.

Manufactured articles constitute a part of the domestic exports of the United States. The manufactures exported are:

1st. from domestic materials.

2d. from foreign materials.

The value of both these kinds of manufactures, exported from 1803 to 1814, was as follows, viz.

* See Ramsay's History and Macpherson's Annals of Commerce.

The manufactures from domestic materials are soap, tallow candles, leather, boots, shoes, saddlery, hats, of grain (as spirits, beer, starch, &c.) of wood, (including furniture, coaches, &c.) cordage, canvass, linseed oil, iron, and various other articles, such as snuff, silk shoes, wax candles, tobacco, lead, bricks, turpentine, spirits, wool and cotton cards, &c.

The manufactures from foreign materials, are spirits from molasses, refined sugar, chocolate, gun powder, brass and copper, and medicines.

The value of each of these for the years 1806 and 1811 was as follows, viz.

Wood (including furniture, coaches, &c.) 418,000

Many small articles exported are not ascertained, although their value is returned to the treasury department.

Some of these are manufactured, and others are in a raw state. We have now completed our view of the domestic exports of the United States; we add the following table, exhibiting the value of the produce of the sea, of the forest, of agriculture and of manufactures exported, for each year, from 1803 to 1814, by which the proportion of each can be, at once, seen, during that period.

From this, it appears, that on an average of eight years, from 1803 to 1811, the produce of agriculture, constituted about three quarters,

in value, of all the domestic exports of the United States, the produce of the forest about one ninth, of the sea, about one fifteenth, and manufactures, about one twentieth. For the year 1812, the whole value of the domestic exports, was $30,032,109, of this, the value of the produce of agriculture, was $24,555,000, leaving but five and a half millions for the rest; and in the year ending October 1st, 1813, about sixteen months from the commencement of the late war with Great-Britain, the whole value of the domestic exports was $25,008,152; of this, the value of the produce of agriculture, was $23,119,000, consisting, principally, of flour and provisions, sent to the Peninsula; in the year 1814, in consequence of the blockade of our coast, the whole exports of the United States amounted only to $6,927,441, of which $6,782,272 was of domestic produce, which found its way, through certain ports, which, for a time, were not subject to the blockade.