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Scottish trade in the seventeenth century The pattern of trade with the Netherlands had been changing since at least the 1620s with a drift, especially of imports, away from the staple port ofVeere; by the 1680s it sent only 7% of the ships from the Netherlands to Scotland, and Rotterdam 85%. But over 80% of these imports still arrived in the Forth and almost all the rest between there and Aberdeen. Dutch imports were huge in their variety textiles, fancy foodstuffs, dyestuffs, seeds, manufactures -and mostly easily transported overland, from Bo'ness to Glasgow and Flanders' trade, mostly from Bruges or Ostend to ......... ..................... ..... ...... . ......................... ............. Other countries 55.3% Percentage of ships arriving in Scotland 1680 to 168 Total number of ships arriving in Scotland 1680to Fife, was very modest by comparison although it prospered during the DutchWars of 1665-7 and 1672-4. French imports -of wine and brandy from Bordeaux, salt from La Rochelle and manufactured goods from Normandy ports like Dieppe and Rouen -were of high value in relation to their bulk and the figure of 10% of ships carrying them may understate their significance. 35% of French cargoes went to Leith and 20% to Glasgow -a quite different pattern from Dutch imports, explained both by the southerly position of their ports of departure and local needs. 63% of wine went to Leith and 17% to Glasgow; French salt was more important to the Clyde, which had r----------., far fewer native salt pans than the Forth. 200 100 FRANCE Number of ships arriving in Scotland from ML Netherlands, Flanders and France 1680 to 1686, by burgh 281