TABLES APPENDED TO CHAPTER XXV.

TABLE NO. 15.

COMPARISON OF EXPORTS AND IMPORTS OF NEW YORK STATE AND THE TRAFFIC ON THE STATE CANALS.

YEAR. VALUE IN DOLLARS OF
Exports. Imports. Movement
of articles on
canals. *
1841 ............ $33,139,833 $75,713,426 $92,202,929
1851 ............ 86,007,019 141,546,538 159,981,801

* See Report of Superintendent of Public Works, 1905, page 408. Data for canals previous to 1837 not available.

TABLE NO. 16.*

COMPARATIVE ORIGIN OF POPULATION IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK -- BASED ON CENSUS OF 1855.

BORN IN Percentages
of the total
population.
New York ................ 64.077
New England ................ 6.014
New Jersey and Pennsylvania ................ 2.071
Southern States ................ 0.378
Western States ................ 0.340
United States ................ 72.903
Foreign Countries ................ 26.585
At sea and unknown ................ 0.512

* From Report of Paper by F. B. Hough, Sup’t of the State Census of 1855,
read before the American Geographical and Statistical Society.

TABLE NO. 17.

VALUE OF EXPORTS FROM NEW YORK, MASSACHUSETTS, PENNSYLVANIA, MARYLAND AND LOUISIANA FOR 1821, 1841, 1846 AND 1850.

STATE. 1821. 1841. 1846. 1850.
Value. Per cent. Value. Per cent. Value. Per cent. Value. Per cent.
New York * ...... $13,162,917 33.6 $33,139,833 37.2 $36,935,413 41.0 $52,712,789 46.7
Massachusetts ...... 12,484,691 31.9 11,487,343 12.9 10,313,118 11.4 10,681,763 9.5
Pennsylvania ...... 7,391,767 18.9 5,152,501 5.8 4,751,005 5.3 4,501,606 4.0
Maryland ...... 3,850,394 9.8 4,947,166 5.5 6,869,055 7.6 6,967,353 6.2
Louisiana ...... 2,222,172 5.8 34,387,483 38.6 31,275,704 34.7 38,105,350 33.7
Total. ...... $39,161,941 ........ $89,114,326 ........ $90,144,295 ........ $112,968,861 ........
Value of articles arriving, by way of the canals, at tide-water † ...... $27,225,322 30.6 $51,105,256 56.7 $55,474,637 49.1

        * Statistical View of the United States, page 187.
        † Report of Superintendent of Public Works, on canals, 1904, page 308.

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