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INTRODUCTION.
TABLE VI.
Number of Ships, with their Tonnage, Registered in Scotland.
PORTS.
Number of
ships above 100
tons.
Number of
ships below 100
tons.
Total amount
of registered
tonnage.
46,587
4,130
6,431
8,740
3,088
12,283
24,227
36,220
24,635
37,786
5,092
14,230
11,540
3,247
26,107
2,622
15,778
4,116
7,155
3,133
1,448
2,241
Aberdeen
Anstrutlier
Banff
Bo'ness
Campbeltown -
Dumfries
Dundee
Glasgow -
Grangemouth -
Greenock
Inverness
Irvine
Kirkaldy
Kirkwall
Leith
Lerwick -
Montrose
Perth
Port- Glasgow -
Stornoway
Stranraer
Thurso
202
9
4
22
5
17
105
111
83
105
12
60
46
3
95
1
64
9
19
7
4
131
87
138
99
64
158
99
113
127
320
69
77
58
56
162
77
106
48
31
65
42
30
Total
983
2160
300,836
The number of British ships which entered the ports of Scotland during
1825, was 1,468, carrying 2,144,680 tons, and 123,120 men ; and the num-
ber of foreign ships during the same period was 6,967, carrying 958,950
tons, and 520,630 men.
Corn Trade. — The quantity of corn shipped at ah the ports of Scotland (in-
cluding Berwick) in the four years ending October 1827, was 2,353,000 quar-
ters, or averaging 588,000 quarters, per annum. The quantity landed at all
the ports was 3,448,000, or 862,000 quarters per annum. Scotland was
recently, therefore, an importing country to the extent of probably one fif-
teenth of her whole consumption (exclusive of foreign grain.) The meal and
flour exported and imported nearly balanced each other. The three principal
kinds of grain stood thus :
Imported and exported annually, coastwise, at all the ports of Scotland : —
Barley.
Oats.
Wheat.
Imported -
Exported -
:' qrs.
1 305,000
1 185,000 |
qrs.
380,000
199,000
qrs.
102,000
159,000
About four-fifths of the oats imported were from Ireland, and three-fourths
of the barley from England.
Consumption of Malt and Spirits. — In the year ending 5th April 1829,
there were 3,711,412 bushels of malt manufactured in Scotland, and in the