[37] Works of John Adams, vol. viii. p. 341. Adams says again, himself: "It is more and more manifest every day that there is, and will continue, a general scramble for navigation. Carrying trade, ship-building, fisheries, are the cry of every nation."—Vol. viii. p. 342.
[38] From an official statement, made public in 1784, it appears that in the year 1770 the total trade, inward and outward, of the colonies on the American Continent, amounted to 750,546 tons. Of this 32 per cent was coastwise, to other members of the group; 30 with the West Indies; 27 with Great Britain and Ireland; and 11 with Southern Europe. Bermuda and the Bahamas, inconsiderable as to trade, were returned among continental colonies by the Custom House.—Sheffield, Commerce of the American States, Table VII.
[39] Chalmers, Opinions, p. 73.
[40] Ibid., p. 18.
[41] Macpherson, vol. iii. p. 317.
[42] Report of Committee of Privy Council, Jan. 28, 1791, pp. 21-23.
[43] Ante, p. 31 (note).
[44] Bryan Edwards, West Indies, vol. ii. p. 486.
[45] Chalmers, Opinions, p. 133.
[46] See, for instance, the Colden Papers, Proceedings N.Y. Historical Society, 1877. There is in these much curious economical information of other kinds.