Ginger) Ironmongery, Arms, Gunpowder, Lead, Tin, Sheet Copper, Drugs, Brimstone, Grindstones, Coals, Chalk, Sail Cloth, Cordage, Paints, Malt Liquors & Cheese.

--There are indeed few

articles the

British Market affords, but what are in some proportion imported here, except such as are among our Staple Commodities, particularly mentioned in the Answer to No. 11. If the Brokers in Great Britain employed as shippers of goods were for one year obliged to give in

the value of the Goods

when they apply for Cockets, the exact amount of what the Inhabitants of

each Province in America take from thence would be easily ascertained.

In

this Country it is not

possible to make such a calculation with any Degree of Precision, for as the Amount of Goods never

appears in the Cockets, no Judgment can be formed of their Value from the Quantity or Number of

--Silks

pieces.

for Instance come out from 25s to 2 shillings per yard, and in general the other Articles

differ in the same proportion from the first cost of the highest to that of the lowest in quality. value of an;

r ted

fromGi e°a t Britain.

When no particular stop is put upon Trade with Great Britain, it is generally estimated nere that the Annual Imports from thence into this Colony, amount on an average to Five

Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling.

The Goods exported from hence to Great Britain that are the produce of this Colony, are chiefly pot Great Britain.

and pearl ashes, Pig and Bar Iron, Peltries, Beeswax, Masts and Spars, with Timber and And of the produce of the West Indies and Honduras Bay, Log f a\\ kinds