ount of tonnage of the American mercantile manner may be
taken, in round numbers, at 2,000,000 tons, which may be subdivided as
follows:

+===============+==========+
Y YRegisteredY
+---------------+----------+
Y YTons Y
+---------------+----------+
YForeign trade Y 700,000Y
+---------------+----------+
YWhale fishery Y 130,000Y
+---------------+----------+
YEnrolled Y Y
+---------------+----------+
YCoasting trade Y 920,000Y
+---------------+----------+
YSteam Y 150,000Y
+---------------+----------+
YCoast FisheriesY 100,000Y
+---------------+----------+
YTotal Y 2,000,000Y
+===============+==========+

The American merchant vessels are generally sailed with fewer men than
the British calculate five men to one hundred tons, which I believe to
be about the just proportion. Mr Carey, in his work, estimates the
proportion of seamen in American vessels to be 44 to every one hundred
tons, and I shall assume his calculation as correct. The number of men
employed in the American mercantile navy will be as follows:--

+===============+======+
Y YMen Y
+---------------+------+
YForeign trade Y30,333Y
+---------------+------+
YWhale fishery Y 5,000Y
+---------------+------+
YCoasting trade Y39,000Y
+---------------+------+
YSteam Y 6,500Y
+---------------+------+
YCoast fisheriesY 4,333Y
+---------------+------+
YTotal Y85,790Y
+===============+======+

And now I will submit, from the examinations I have made, the
proportions of American and British seamen which are contained in this
aggregate of 85,799 men.

In the foreign trade we have to deduct the masters of the ships, the
mates, and the boys who are apprenticed to learn their duty, and rise to
mates and masters (not to serve before the mast). These I estimate
at:--

+==============================================+=====+
YMasters Y1,500Y
+----------------------------------------------+-----+
YMates Y3,000Y
+----------------------------------------------+-----+
YApprentices Y1,500Y
+----------------------------------------------+-----+
YDitto, co'ld men, as cooks, stewards, etceteraY2,000Y
+----------------------------------------------+-----+
YTotal Y8,000Y
+========================