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ency of one quality is accumulated to load a vessel. 

 In former times, as I was informed, these stores used 

 to have a large quantity placed in them when the 

 water was low, to be ready to take advantage of the 

 first autumnal rains. 



The water was low when J was in Poland, from 

 the long drought and great heat of the season ; few or 

 no vessels were navigating on the upper part of the 

 river, and yet the storehouses on the banks were 

 empty. 



At Warsaw there are large warehouses, but in them 

 there were not 200 quarters of Wheat. 



At Pulaway is a large magazine, capable of storing, 

 and adapted for keeping in good order, 6,000 quarters 

 of Wheat ; but it did not contain a single bushel. 



At Cassimir there are several large warehouses, 

 some of them, from having had no business of any ex- 

 tent during the last four years, seemed to be in need 

 of repairs. Others were, however, in good condition. 

 The whole are capable of storing 80,000 quarters of 

 corn. 



In none of them was any Wheat, though they con- 

 tained some Rye belonging to the Government, which 

 its agents had received for rent and taxes, from cul- 

 tivators who could not pay money. 



Rachow has warehouses for storing 14,000 quar- 

 ters, but in them was neither Wheat, nor any other 

 Corn, to be found. At Cracow the case was the same ; 

 the warehouses, which are extensive, were empty. 

 The places I have noticed are the chief, where there 

 are ferries over the river, and to which the roads from 

 the surrounding districts lead. They are the most 

 convenient for shipping goods, and most of the trade 

 is dispatched from them. There are a few others of 

 smaller moment, which I did not visit, and only, on 

 hearsay, know that they are alike without Wheat. 



From the view I have thus taken, I am led to the 

 conviction, that neither in the sea ports, from which 

 Wheat is usually shipped, nor in the interior of the 



