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that of hemp'and flax. They every where cultivate 
Indian corn, and in Stiria (as in Virginia) it forms 
the ordinary bread of the country.” In Bohemia, 
Moravia, and Galitia, (1) the soil is uncommonly 
rich, and under proper management would be very 
productive. Austrian Silesia is less fitted for the 
production of grain, but excels in forage and cattle. 
Hungary, Transylvania, and Croatia, abound ‘in 
every species of © agricultural produce. | Their 
flocks and pasturage are not inferior to those of the 
Ukraine ; and wheat, buckwheat, Indian corn, mil- 
let, rice, hemp, flax and tobacco, yield immense har- 
vests to very small degrees of labor. Yet is agri- 
culture far from being in a flourishing condition! 
Writers on political economy ascribe this faci prin- 
a to two causes— 
Ist.'Phe degradation and on of the labor- 
ing part of the community ; and, veri 
2d. The want of convenient ictiaatinoted Gutleds 
for the produce of the soil. 
“We shall find in Hungary a striking iHustration 
of the correctness of this opinion. “The Populous 
Hungaricus,”’ is divided into four estates, the mag- 
nats, the nobles, and the clergy, who possess all the 
lands, and the “ misera contribuens plebs,” who (be- 
sides tythes, rents and corvees) pay all the taxes. 
This wretched populace is composed of the burgh- 
ers and the peasantry, of which there are three 
kinds—slaves for life, temporary slaves, and a third 
sort called Libera emigrantionis, who, as theirname in- 
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