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countries where it is grown, was there a stock which, 

 if removed to the sea ports, would increase the amount 

 of what is collected there to any sensible extent. 



There is an accumulation in the Russian provinces 

 of Podolia and Volhynia, which was reported to me 

 to have been stored in caves under ground, containing 

 four or five years' growth. 



Owing to the situation of those provinces and the 

 difficulties and expenses of conveyance, it is more 

 likely to perish in the depots than to be conveyed to 

 any places from which it can interfere with the trade 

 of this country. The cost of conveying it to Dantzic 

 would be equal to the price for which it would sell ; 

 and the shorter but more hazardous distance to 

 Odessa would lead to a market there, lower than even 

 that of Dantzic. 



The produce of these two provinces was never 

 large, and has only found its way to the sea-shore, 

 when very high prices have enabled it to bear the 

 expense and risk of conveying it thither. 



The whole stock of Wheat may be now brought 

 into one point ; and appear as follows : 



Quarters. 



Pomerania --------- 67,103 



Dantzic and Elbing ----- -361,500 



Lubeck -_.___ 29,900 



458,503 

 Conjectural : 



Denmark -- 25,000 



Rostock and Wismar ----- 25,000 

 Petersburgh, Riga, and Memel - - - 100,000 



608,503 



In ports in the North Sea, as ascertained : 



Hamburgh - - - - 105,000 



Bremen - - - - 27,970 



Total - - 741,473 



