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four millions Of yards. they are now nearly
forty millions, Fifty years ago. the whole
value of our exported produce, both native
and foreign, was just fifteen millions OF mo-
new; the value of British produce exported
alone is now more than fifty millions. n
hundred and fifty years ago, says old Tuck
err. there were only two or three vessels III
Scotland above 200 tons; our whole tonnage
is now more than quarter OF million,
employing twenty thousand souls. A hund-
red and fifty years ago, says Chalmers, the
whole navy of Britain did not amount to
hundred thousand tons; it is now at least
three millions of tons. employing about two
hundred thousand souls.


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