184 NEWFOUNDLAND.

sum eventually finds its way to the United King- dom, in payment of British manufactures.

In the carrying trade to and from Newfoundland, there are about 4-00 vessels, the tonnage of which amounts to about 50,000 tons; two-thirds of these vessels belong to the United Kingdom, the rest are colonial. Most of these vessels make two voyages; some three, and some four. The Custom-house entries average, at the different harbours of entry, for the last four years, as follows :—

StZJohn's, 455 vessels entered and cleared. Harbour Grace, 105 Trinity, - 3'7

Twillingate, 30 ‘ Bay of Bulls, 3

Ferryland, 25 Placentia, — lO Benin, - 45 St Lawrence, 9

Fortune Bay, 34

753 vessels, exclusive of those entered and cleared direct at Labrador.

Of the above vessels, the entries and clearances were—

Great Britain, - - 298 Foreign, Europe, and Brazil, 193 British America, - - 182 West Indies, - - - ’72 United States, - - 8

753

In this number, neither the coasting nor sealing vessels, about 350, are taken into account.