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From the shipping places below Prague the freight 

 is lower ; but the Wheat grown near them is said not 

 to be of so good a quality as that from the vicinity of 

 that city, and the districts to the south of it. 



The export trade in Wheat of Hamburgh by sea, 

 appears during the last 10 years to have reached an 

 annual average of 48,263 quarters ; the greater part 

 of the Corn imported there being for the consumption 

 of the city, and the surrounding territory belonging 

 to it. In the Appendix, No. 32, is seen the course 

 of the Trade ; the prices of all Corn for the last 10 

 years, the prices of Wheat from 1791 to 1822, and 

 the stock about 100,000 quarters, as taken at two 

 periods in the last year. 



Although the price of Wheat as well as of other 

 Grain is very low in Denmark, yet the surplus 

 quantity is very small ; and the depressed prices 

 may be in a great measure attributed to the restric- 

 tions upon Danish Corn in the dominions of Prussia, 

 its nearest and most populous neighbour. The Wheat 

 exported from the whole kingdom, in the six months 

 which followed the abundant harvest of 1824, is seen 

 in the Appendix, No. 35, to have been 57,561 

 Quarters. By that Account, it appears, that more 

 than half the Wheat was from the provinces of 

 Holstein and Sleswick, which are in close contact 

 with Hamburgh. In the market return of prices 

 from that city, the Wheat of Holstein forms one of 

 the quotations ; it is then fair to conclude, that a 

 portion of the Wheat exported from Holstein, if not 

 from Sleswick, is that which subsequently becomes a 

 part of what is included in the exports and stock of 

 Hamburgh. I should much doubt if the whole 

 quantity of Wheat in store in October last, in the 

 kingdom of Denmark, amounted to 20,000 quarters. 



These are the Returns of the several places 

 mentioned in the months of August or September, 

 before the Corn of the last harvest had made its 

 appearance in the markets. I had reason, from all 



