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used for carrying wood and other similar things to the towns;
but in most departments they have gradually been supplanted by
steamers.

According to the official statistics, the number of vessels
employed in home coast-traffic is as follows:

	1866	1875	1885	1897
Number of Sailing-Vessels . . .	2,439	2,622	2,567	2,934
»         - Steamers..... .	46	109	236	362
Tonnage of Sailing-Vessels .	53,302	66,438	68,340	72,283
»         - Steamers .....	2,890	7,753	13,574	16.945

The number of voyages and their tonnage together for 1885,
are represented by the following figures:

	Number of Voyages	Tonnage
Sailing Vessels .............	18,857	577,569
Steamers ...............	53,842	3,688,418

The steamers had thus at that date already taken 86.5 per
cent of the coast-traffic tonnage.

These official figures do not, however, nearly represent the
whole extent of the coast traffic, for they include only those ships
that have not obtained their certificate of nationality for foreign
voyages. This, however, most of the larger steamers have, that
run in regular routes along the coast. If these packet-boats and
all steamers under 100 tons are reckoned as belonging to the coast
traffic, the number of steamers for 1897 would be 501 with a
tonnage of 42,600 register tons.

If we suppose that these ships in 1897 have made, on an
average, as many voyages annually as those without a certificate
of nationality did in 1885, they will represent a tonnage of
9,800,000 tons, as against 528,000 for sailing-vessels.

There is no estimate of the stowage of ships in home traffic.
In order, however, to form an approximate idea of the home goods
traffic by sea, we may presume that each net register ton (100

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