stopping of all which, in a country where there is not any sale for it,
instead of permitting the same to be carried to the only places of
consumption, must soon reduce the price thereof to so low a rate, that
the merchants who have purchased that rice will not be able to sell it
for the prime cost, much less will they be able to recover the money they
have paid for duty, freight, and other charges thereon, which amount to
double the first cost: for the rice that an hundred pounds sterling will
purchase in South Carolina, costs the importer two hundred more in
British duties, freight, and other charges[1]."

[1] An Account of Rice exported in Ten Years after the Province was
purchased for the King.

_Barrels._
To Portugal, - - - - - - - 83,379
To Gibraltar, - - - - - - 958
To Spain, - - - - - - - - 3,570
To France, - - - - - - - - 9,500
To Great Britain,
Ireland, and the
British Plantations, - - - 30,000
To Holland, Hamburgh
and Bremen, including
7000 barrels to Sweden
and Denmark, - - - - - - - 372,118
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Total quantity exported
in those ten years, - - - 499,525

"Thus it appears, that by prohibiting the exportation of rice from this