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CANADIAN GUIDE BOOK. 135 This indicates the value of Imports into Canada for the year 1847 to have been £3,795,847 5s. lid. and with the addition of Free Goods, about £4,000,000, or very nearly £3 to each inhabitant, or £15 for each family of five persons, contributing towards the Revenue of the Country XI 7s. 7d. Of the large amount of Im ports in 1847, we find that Great Britain and her Colonies furnish £2,677,260,exclusive of the Imports by Sea into the Ports of Western Canada, and Goods passing through the States under the Drawback Act. When we come to consider the consumption of Articles, we shall see how capable of extension even this large Trade is, and how adequate the resources of the Country are to meet it. The real wealth of the Country is but little known, and till within a few years, when the regulations of the Customs were rendered more stringent and efficient, there was no information whatever in the hands of the Government as to the Trade carried on by the Inland Ports. To the introduction of the present system we owe much, and, if the same check could be placed on the Export Trade, we would soon be able to arrive at a definite knowledge of our Trade, which knowledge would cause a greater energy in all our efforts to bring forward the resources of the Colony. Let us now turn our attention for a few moments to the Export Trade, and endeavour to make available the scattered information we possess on the subject. With regard to the Ports of Montreal and Quebec, no difficulty arises; we find the Exports from these Ports to have amounted in 1848 to £1,749,167 10s. lid. to which adding for the Fisheries not included £91,252 15s. 8d. we have for the Exports by Sea £1,840,420 6s. 7d., the great portion of which was to England and her Colonies. As to the Exports by the United States,we have only partial returns from some Ports, and at evidently under-rated values, viz : Produce of the Forest . . £159,551 6 5 Agricultural Productions . 454,350 0 9 Livestock .... 54,243 7 6 Ollier Articles . . , 104,287 10 8 ' £772,432 5 4