Articles. | Quantity. | Price in dollars. | Am. in dollars. |
Tobacco | 55,000 hhds. of 1000 lb. | at 30 d. per hhd. | 1,650,000 |
Wheat | 800,000 buſhels | at 56 d. per buſhel. | 666,666⅔ |
Indian corn | 600,000 buſhels | at ⅓. d. per buſhel. | 200,000 |
Shipping | —— | —— | 100,000 |
Masts, planks, ſcantling, ſhingles, ſtaves | —— | —— | 66,666⅔ |
Tar, pitch, turpentine, | 30,000 barrels | at 1⅓ d. per bar. | 40,000 |
Peltry,[1] | 180 hhds. of 600 lb. | at 512 d. per lb. | 42,000 |
Pork | 4,000 barrels | at 10 d. per bar. | 40,000 |
Flaxſeed, hemp, cotton | —— | —— | 8,000 |
Pit-coal, pig-iron | —— | —— | 6,666⅔ |
Peas | 5,000 buſhels | at |
3,333⅓ |
Beef | 1,000 barrels | at 3⅓ d. per bar. | 3,333⅓ |
Sturgeon, white ſhad, herring | —— | —— | 3,333⅓ |
Brandy[2] & whiskey | —— | —— | 1,666⅔ |
Horſes | —— | —— | 1,666⅔ |
This ſum is equal to 850,000l. Virginia money, 607,142 guineas. | 2,833,333⅓ Dols. |
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