Shipping.

33. The vessels entered and cleared at Victorian ports in 1879 numbered 4167, of an aggregate burden of 1,940,222 tons, and carrying 86,324 men. The tonnage was in excess of that in any former year, but the number of vessels and of men was slightly exceeded in some years. More than half the vessels were steamers. About two-thirds of the tonnage and three-fourths of the men belonged to vessels of the same description.