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scarcely obtain 300. But will the bulk 

 and price of wheat admit of a freight and 

 profit sufficient for the adventurer ? Mr. 

 Law, in his sketches of arrangements in 

 Bengal, for the -year 1 78Q, says it would 

 clear 50 per cent. " I saw," he says, " much 

 extended cultivation and increasing popu- 

 lation through Bengal : but there is some 

 apprehension of a want of consumption ; 

 grain selling in some places 100 Ibs. and 

 upwards for \2d. sterling, (equal to jd.^ a 

 bushel of Go Ibs.) Wheat might certainly be 

 exported from Bengal with great success. 

 It would be shipped for js. 3d. sterling, 

 the English quarter, which is under 1 1 d. a 

 bushel. At 58s. a quarter in London, it 

 would yield 50 per cent, profit on cost and 

 charges of freight," &c. 



Although wheat from India should not 

 always bear the voyage, yet the flour of it, 

 which is very fine, might. Flour carried 

 from the Delaware to the Ganges, proved 

 perfectly good when returned from thence 

 to Philadelphia in a late voyage. But if 



