APPENDIX IOI 



The marks of the wrack flaxes are: W, PW, HPW, 

 CPW, and WPW. Here W means wrack and white, and 

 the other letters as the Crown flaxes. The Drieband marks 

 are D, PD, SD, PSD, LD, PLD, and DW. S here means 

 Slanetz, and L Livonian. 



Pernau "district" flax is grown in the neighbourhood of 

 Pernau and shipped in the state in which it is marketed by 

 the peasants, with a good deal of shove in the top end. Pernau 

 flax is this district flax opened out in Pernau and partially 

 rescutched, making it worth 2 per ton more. Flax shipped 

 from Pernau comes from either of two districts, Livonia or 

 Fellen, the latter being of a finer quality, and fetching 2 per 

 ton more. The Pernau marks are LOD, O, OD, HD, R, 

 and G. 



For Dunabourg or Kowns flaxes the Riga marks are usually 

 employed. For Ostrow the marks of both Riga and Pskoffare 

 used, and sometimes figures also. Pskoff flax is usually 

 classed as OD, PWW, OW,O, OO, OOO, PI, PII, PHI. 

 Flax from Reval and Dorpat is exported in bobbins, and has 

 usually been re-scutched. The following are the ordinary 

 marks: GR, HD, D, OD, and OOD. 



The principal districts from which the flax known as 

 Archangel comes are Vologda, Ustjuga, Jaroslav, Kama, 

 Tolma, and Viatka. It is usually classed in six marks : ist 

 Crown, 2nd Crown, 3rd Crown, 4th Crown, Zebrack No. i, 

 and Zebrack No. 2. 



Archangel flax is dew-retted, and is usually of a silver-blay 

 or reddish-foxy colour. It is exported in bales weighing each 

 about 500 Ib. The tare at Archangel varies according to the 

 weight of the mats. The weight of the cords is not deducted. 

 Navigation on the White Sea is open only from June to 

 October. The " bracque," official and compulsory, exists in 

 Archangel. Flax which has not been bracqued cannot be 

 exported from this port. 



St. Petersburg flax may be divided into "classed" and 



