Note 5 — Chapter I

In 1818, the whole of the exports from New Orleans was only in value a little more than three million sterling; in 1850 it had reached thirty millions; the shipments of raw cotton alone in that year being 1,600,000 bales. During the year ending June 30, 1874, the exports of that article to foreign countries were 2,883,785 bales from the port of New Orleans alone.