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before it is fit to be placed in the warehouses. The 

 warehouses are very well adapted for storing corn. They 

 consist, generally, of 7 stories, 3 of which are in the roof. 

 The floors are about 9 feet asunder. Each of them is 

 divided by perpendicular partitions, the whole length, 

 about 4 feet high, by which different parcels are kept distinct 

 from each other. Thus the floors have two divisions, each 

 uf them capable of storing from 150 to 200 quarters, and 

 leaving sufficient space for turning or screening it. There 

 are abundance of windows in each floor, which are always 

 thrown open in dry weather to ventilate the corn. It is 

 usually turned over three times a- week. The men who 

 perform the operation, throw it with their shovels as high 

 as they can, and thus the grains are separated from each 

 other, and exposed to the drying influence of the air. 

 The whole of the corn warehouses now left for many were 

 burned during the siege of 1814 are capable of storing 

 500,000 quarters of wheat, supposing the parcels to be 

 large enough to fill each of the two divisions of the floors, 

 with a separate heap ; but as. of late years, it has come 

 down from Poland in smaller parcels than formerly, and 

 of more various qualities, which must of necessity be kept 

 distinct, the present stock of about 280,000 quarters is 

 found to occupy nearly the whole of those warehouses 

 which are in repair, or are advantageously situated for 

 loading the ships. Ships are loaded by gangs of porters 

 with great despatch, who will complete a cargo of 500 

 quarters in about three or four hours. [Jacob's Report in 

 1826.] In 1845, the exports of wheat were 34,106 lasts. 

 In the beginning of last century rye was the grain chiefly 

 exported from Dantzic. In the preceding century its annual 

 average export of rye amounted to 95,000 lasts. The 

 grain warehouses, and those for linen and hemp, are 

 situated, as already noticed, upon an island, formed by the 

 river Mottlau on one side, and another branch on the other. 

 There are three bridges on each side of the island, which are 

 drawn up at night, excepting the two at the end of the 

 main street across the centre of the island, communicating 



