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Show Our Early Chinese Trade. SH Tho rapid growth of our early trad ifflfl with China Is shown by tho fact that fmm thu 37 vessels cnrrylng In 180S nearly H flvo and threo-quarters millions' worth Bfl of goods to Canton, represented a B larger fraction of our total foreign , Bfl commerce thnn our trndo with the BH wholo of China does today. Tho sllvor IBJ Imported to balauco American trad ftffl with China averaged moro than two 'kBJ nnd n half millions annually In tho 30' SB years down to 1827, and reached ' kB maximum of eoven and a halt mil- kBJ lions In 1818. John Foord, in Youth' iJH Companion. SlBl |