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Total

1,829

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Fixed capital in 185,857 dwelling-houses,

Estimated value of arable land, &c. £23,142,131 0 0

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Fixed capital, in mills, stores, and other

property required for carrying forward the timber trade, estimated, viz.

In New Brunswick £1,178,750 00

Lower Canada

2,057,600 00

Upper Canada

1,114,000 00

Nova Scotia

463,925 00

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47,000 0 0

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1,688

£2,368,760 00 4,632,440 00

779,214 00 619,825 00

14,741,892 00

9,292,850 00

4,861,275 00

£37,306,256 00 Brought over

Fixed capital, connected with the cod and seal fisheries at Newfoundland

and Labrador, at least

Fixed capital in the fishing establishments at Gaspè, Perce, Bonaventure, &c.

£37,306,256 0 0

1,435,000 00

165,000 00

Fixed capital in the fisheries of New
Brunswick, within the Bay de Cha-
leur, Miramichi, and the Bay of
Fundy

Fixed capital in the cod, herring, seal,
and whale fisheries of Nova Scotia
and Cape Breton
Public buildings at Quebec, Montreal,
Halifax, St. John's, Newfoundland,
and in the other towns and settle-
ments in the colonies, together with
churches and chapels, cost at least
30 millions-say,

84,000 0 0

220,000 0 0

15,000,000 00

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Shubenectady Canal, at least

6,000 0 0 75,000 0.0

Sums expended and fixed as capital in the iron forges of St. Maurice, the iron Marmora works, the coal and iron mines of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and New

Brunswick, aggregate estimate at least

Total fixed capital

230,000 0 0

£56,102,39700

The foregoing statement may be considered the lowest estimate of fixed capital in British America, exclusive of shipping (value, 1,600,000l.) and the cost of Government buildings, dock-yards, and the extensive fortifications in Canada and the maritime colonies.

The estimated value of British and Irish manufactures exported from the United Kingdom to the British colonies (in the year ending 5th January, 1833,) will be found by the customs' returns to amount, exclusive of freight to British ships, to about

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The official value of British manufactures for the year ending 5th January, 1832, is stated at 2,315,7651., and of foreign and colonial 303,7971.

£1,532,582 19 0

The official value of imports to the United
Kingdom from British America, for the
year ending 5th January, 1833, is
The official value of exports of British
manufactures from the United Kingdom,
to the North American Colonies for the
same year

Of Foreign and Colonial merchandize

Total

2,858,514 19 0 271,975 90

- £3,130,490 80

The following statement of ships, tonnage, and seamen employed between the United Kingdom and the British North American dominions, is computed by taking the average of the five years preceding the 5th of January, 1833.

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The difference of 62 ships on the average inwards greater than outwards, arises from that number, besides new ships, proceeding to Newfoundland with naval stores, and loading with fish, either for the continent of Europe or the West Indies; and the difference of tonnage from others, entered from the United Kingdom, being large ships, which load with lumber in the ports of New Brunswick for the West Indies.

The following statement, computed from the customs' returns, shows the number of vessels, tonnage, and men employed between the Northern colonies and the West Indies, and other countries.

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Total 1,842 144,791 8,812 1,387 148,613 8,280

It is difficult to ascertain the tonnage and seamen employed in the northern intercolonial trade. The official returns for the year ending 5th January, 1832, give the following statement, which does not include the vessels employed in the fishery :

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STATISTICS OF BRITISH AMERICA.

Inwards, 3,068 vessels, 211,471 tons, 9,991 men.
Outwards, 3,260 vessels, 227,197 tons, 10,035 men.

The tonnage, &c. employed between British North America and all other countries, for the year ending 5th January, 1832, is computed to be

Total inwards, 6,239 ships, 814,380 tons,

Total outwards, 6,366 ships, 836,668 tons,

39,584 men. 40,070 men.

Total imports to all countries, per official returns, £4,810,039.

Total exports to all countries, per ditto,

3,671,891.

The value of imports from the United States by way of the rivers, sea coasts, and the numerous roads, cannot be ascertained; but the Customs' returns make them appear about eight times the amount of exports; the balance being paid for in specie, and in a great quantity of British manufactures smuggled, along the frontier, into the United States, the amount of which cannot be obtained.

In the particular statistical accounts of Upper Canada, an error in the table requires correction. For 2,200, it should be 220,000 swine; and where the religious denominations are treated of, it is not distinctly stated that the Methodist Conference has now no connection whatever with that of the United States.

There are three paper mills also omitted. The number of vessels employed in the sealing voyages from Newfoundland is wrong, by transposing some figures. For 159, p. 163. Vol. I., it should be 359; and for 345, it should be 534, and registering 42,720 tons.

The value of furs annually exported from British America, taking the average of the five years ending 5th January, 1833, is about 210,000l. sterling.

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