Statistics. 



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of Schuppanek during the years 

 amounted to 2,652,473 livres : viz. 



HUNGARY. 



1803 and 1804 



Coin*. 



.Measures. 



Livret. 



Wool 1,232,505 



Cotton 194,877 



Red thread .... 61,743 



Rice 32,064 



Honey 156,378 



Wax 8,996 



Leather 356,619 



Hare skins 5,839 



Goat do 2,721 



Sheep do 1,469 



Stag do 106 



Chamois do 11 



Badger do 8 



Buck do 38 



Wolf do 33 



Bear do 9 



Fox-tails 371 



Horned cattle . . . 2,384 



Calves 129 



Horses 609 



Sheep 3,150 



Goats 1,839 



Hogs 6,589 



Fish 214,584 



Tortoises 2,239 



Salt meat 6,053 



Beef tallow . . . .4,419 



Livret. 



Suet 238,176 



Bacon 1,652 



Hams 550 



Candles 116 



Sturgeon's spawn 9,829 



Grease 6,527 



Cabbage .... 35,530 



Onions 19,928 



Garlic 365 



Pot-herbs 5,686 



Melons 2,114 



Plums 659 



Lint 490 



Tobacco 155 



Buck-thorn berries 952 



Gall-nuts 240 



Olives 288 



Olive-oil 54> 



Frankincense ... 48 



Raisins 304 



Buck-horns 19 



Figs 142 



Lime 23,349 



Soap 1,268 



Reed-mats 627 



Boots 312 



Cordage 5,750 



The imports which enter by the Danube are of the 

 same description as those in the preceding Table ; but 

 their amount is comparatively inconsiderable. Of co- 

 lonial produce Hungary consumes annually about 8,000 

 quintals of coffee, and 10,000 quintals of sugar. Upon 

 the whole, notwithstanding its commercial difficulties 

 and obstructions, the exports of Hungary are to its 

 imports, in the proportion of more than four to three. 

 According to the calculations of Schwartner, during 

 ten years (from 1777 to 1786) its exports were valued 

 at 148,229,177 florins, and its imports at 106,721,371 

 florins. 



The money, weights and measures of this country 

 correspond nearly with those of Austria. In money, 

 the common reckoning is m Jlorins and kreutzers, 60 

 kreutzers being equivalent to one florin. The copper 

 coins are ; the pollurak, equal to a kreutzer and a half; 

 the groszel, value of half a polturak ; and the ungrisch, 

 of which five are equivalent to three kreutzers. The 

 ideal or fictitious money of Hungary, consists of 



the baiter-gulden 

 the kurzc- gulden 

 the vonas-gnlden 

 the ort 



50 

 51 

 12 



kreutzers 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 



and 



The measure prescribed for corn throughout the 

 kingdom is the Presbourg bushel. In the county of 

 Zips this measure is called a kubel, and is divided into 

 two korelzs ; but in other places the knbel is divided 

 into four koretzs or veka. The eimer is the general 

 measure for wine, but it varies in its contents in diffe- 

 rent parts of the country. At Oedenbourg it contains 

 84 halben or pints, and at Buda only 60. The great 

 eimer of Debretzin is 1 00 pints, and the small one 50. 

 In consequence of this discrepancy of measures, the 

 merchants presented a remonstrance to the committee 

 of commerce appointed by the diet. On this subject 

 they remarked, that such a variety of measures were 



hurtful to commerce, and destroyed their credit among Statistici. 

 foreigners ; that an an/at of Tokay wine, which ought s IT'-*' 

 to hold an eimer and a half, in general contained scarce- 

 ly an eimer ; and that a piece of wine, which ought to 

 contain 64 halben, has seldom more than 58. 



The foot of Vienna is the standard square measure 

 for surveying. According to a regulation called vrba- 

 rittm, the jock or acre is fixed at 1600 square toises ; 

 but in some of the counties where this regulation has 

 not been introduced, this measure varies greatly ; as at 

 Oedenbourg, for instance, the acre measures only 900 

 square toises. 



The weights are in general the same as at Vienna, Weights. 

 (except the stein used in Upper Hungary, which weighs 

 20 pounds) viz. 



1 quintal (cwt.) = 



1 pound = 



1 mark =r 



1 loth 



1 quintalc 



100 pounds. 



2 marks 



16 loths 



4 quintales or drams. 



4 deuiers. 



The greatest obstructions to the commerce of tin's Roads. 

 country arise from the difficulty and expence of con- 

 veyance. Except in the districts on the north and 

 west, there are few made roads in Hungary, and these 

 are kept in very bad repair. The bridges in general are Bridges 

 wretched, and almost all built of wood, which the rising 

 of the rivers often carries away and destroys. Some 

 of the flying bridges, however, used in this country, 

 are very magnificent, and are adorned with consider- 

 able elegance. That over the Danube 'at Gran con- 

 sists of a large platform constructed across two barges, 

 and held by other boats at anchor. It is provided with 

 several small houses, a large bell and cupola, images, 

 &c. and is capable of conveying, at the same time, a 

 great number of carriages, passengers, and cattle. From 

 Pesth, the centre of Hungarian commerce, the road to 

 Vienna passes through Komorn, Raab, and Wiesel- 

 bonrg; to Gallicia, by Erlau, Kaschau, and Eperies ; 

 to Transylvania, by Debretzin, and also by Ketschke- 

 met, Szegedin, Temeschwar, and Lugosch ; to Wala- 

 chia, by Temeschwar, Karansebes, and Schuppenek ; 

 to Semlin and Belgrade, by Theresienstadt and Neusatz ; 

 to Croatia, by Stuhlweissenbourg, Veszprim, and Kanis- 

 ch ; and to Stiria and Treiste, by Veszprim, Somogy, 

 and Pettau. 



The transportation of goods by water, though more 

 expeditious, suffers many interruptions, from the shal- 

 lows and rapids in the rivers. The Danube itself is far 

 from being free of these inconveniences ; but boats with 

 from 6000 to 8000 quintals of grain can pass as high as 

 Komorn. The formation of canals, however, which has Canals. 

 of late become an object of improvement, promises to fa- 

 cilitate greatly the internal commerce of this country. 

 Those that are finished are the canal of Baatsch, the 

 Bega canal, and the Tranzisci canal. The Bega canal 

 commences near Facsed in the county of Krasclio, and 

 after forming a communication between the rivers Bega 

 and Temesch, traverses all the Bannat, and falls into 

 the Theisse. The Tranzisci canal was first opened 

 only in 1 802. It receives the waters of the Danube at 

 Monoflor-Segh, and discharges itself into the Theisse 

 at Foldwar ; and in its whole extent requires only four 

 sluices. In 1804, there passed through this canal 634 

 boats, many of which carried from 4000 to 5000 quin- 

 tals ; and their cargoes, which we here present to the 

 reader, will enable him to form some idea of the inter- 

 nal commerce ef this country. 



