TABLE NO 11.

RISE AND FALL OF THE AMERICAN MERCHANT MARINE. †

 

Year.

Foreign

shipping

per capita.

Cubic Feet.

 

Year.

Foreign

shipping

per capita.

Cubic Feet.

1790

9.75

 

1824

5.79

1792

10.55

 

1826

6.00

1794

10.32

 

1828

6.18

1796

12.53

 

1830

4.15

1798

12.06

 

1832

4.48

1800

12.33

 

1834

5.18

1802

9.74

 

1836

4.95

1804

10.82

 

1838

4.39

1806

12.28

 

1840

4.48

1808

11.09

 

1850

6.23

1810

13.43

 

1860

7.58

1812

9.78

 

1870

3.76

1814

8.17

 

1880

2.62

1816

9.12

 

1890

1.47

1818

6.39

 

1895

1.18

1820

5.95

 

1898

0.99

1822

5.63

 

 

 

† From Philadelphia as a Seaport and Manufacturing City. Publication, Philadelphia Commercial Museum. – 1899.

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