St. Petersburg, Gulf of Finland, 7,200,000
Archangel, on the White Sea, 9,528,000
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40,496,000

Chicago, 1860, 30,000,000

or three-quarters of the amount of grain shipped by the seven largest
corn-markets in Europe; and if we add to the shipments from Chicago the
amount from other lake-ports last year, the aggregate will be found to
exceed the shipments of those European cities by ten to twenty millions
of bushels. Will any one doubt that the granary of the world is in the
Mississippi Valley?

The internal commerce of the country, as it exists on the lakes,
rivers, canals, and railroads, is not generally appreciated. It goes on
noiselessly, and makes little show in comparison with the foreign trade;
but its superiority may be seen by a few comparisons taken from a speech
of the Hon. J.A. Rockwell, in Congress, in 1846.

In the year 1844, the value of
goods transported on the New
York Canals was..... $92,750,874

The whole exports of the country
in 1844......... 99,716,179

The imports and exports of Cleveland
the same year amounted
to the sum of...... $11,195,703