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other hand, the farmers, who are rather a grumbling' kind of race, 

 have been fo long remarked for exaggerating every tiling bad in the 

 weather, or bad about the crop, that the)' are not now believed 

 when they fpeak the truth. 



P^etiirn of Grain of all kinds, flour, meal, hulled barley, &c. im- 

 ported and exported at Leith, from the week ending July I2th, 

 to the week ending OAober nth, inclufive. The whole redu- 

 ced to quarters of 8 bufliels each, reckoning a ton of flour equal 

 to 7 quarters of wheat ; a ton of hulled barley equal to 8 quar- 

 ters of barley j and 4 bolls of oat-meal equal to 3 quarterd of 

 oats. 



Remains 118,025 for home confurnpt, which is fuppofed 

 to have been 3000 quarters weekly in Edinburgh, Leith, adjacent 

 fuburbs, and inland counties to the fouth and weft. Hence in 33 

 weeks, (the time fptciiied), there will have been expended 99,000 

 quarters, leaving ftill 19,025 quarters for the Winter confurnpt, in 

 addition to the exilling crop in the country. 



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