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Scottish trade in the seventeenth century These following statistics are based on lo"aJ Aberdeen shore accounts and Dundee shipping lists. For neither port is there a continuous sequence ofaccounts. The Dundee lists include only incoming ships; the Aberdeen figures also include outwardbound vessels. The origin of 9.9% of the former and 24.3% of the latter are unknown and have been omitted from the charts. The Dundee lists do not include Scottish arrivaIs, except from the Northern Isles. Denmark 1.1 % Danzig 6.9% Other Eastern Baltic Ports 2.8% Other Western Baltic Ports 2.3% Low Countries 10.1 % Bordeaux 11.6% La Rochelle 8.4% Other French Ports 5.5% Spain 0.9% England 3.0% Northern Isles 6.17% Dundee 1580 to 1618 Aberdeen's trade was dominated by shipping from other Scottish ports but much ofthis, particularly from Leith, carried foreign goods. Salt came from La Rochelle and Fife, wine from Bordeaux, and apples, onions and other miscellaneous goods from northern France and the Low Countries. Beer was imported from England and the Baltic, while Sweden, conspicuously absent from the Aberdeen figures, supplied iron. Low Countries 17.2% Dieppe 6.7% Bordeaux 2.8% La Rochelle 5.0% Spain 0.3% England 1.9% Leith 32.1% Other Scottish Ports 14.3% Aberdeen 1596 to 1618 SPAIN Destination of exports, Dundee and Aberdeen, 1580 to 1618 DDi 269

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