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great proportion of the trade will be drawn into that 

 channel. The port of Riga is closed by frost a much 

 longer time than that of Dantzic ; the passage from 

 it to the countries where Corn is wanted is longer ; 

 the climate is less favourable for drying the Grain 

 after removing it from the barges, preparatory to 

 shipment ; and it, at present, has not those spacious 

 and well-adapted warehouses, for the secure deposit 

 of Corn, by which Dantzic is eminently distinguished. 



Some portion of the Corn is at present brought 

 down to the sea shore, by the river Neimen, and 

 after paying a transit duty to Prussia, at the town of 

 Schmaleningken, is conveyed to Memel. This branch 

 of the trade is, however, but small, as it appears (see 

 Appendix, No. 1.) that in the three years 1816, 

 1817, and 1818, a period when the general trade 

 was the greatest, the whole quantity that paid the 

 transit duty was only 49,596 quarters of Wheat, 

 21,830 quarters of Barley, 185,292 quarters of Rye, 

 and 108,482 quarters of Oats. 



From the southern provinces of Poland, viz. San- 

 domir and Cracow, in which the greatest quantity of 

 the best Wheat is produced, a portion is annually sent 

 into the neighbouring Prussian province of Silesia, 

 by land, where a part of it is consumed by the few 

 inhabitants of Breslaw, and the other cities who eat 

 wheaten bread. The greater part is, however, con- 

 veyed by the river Odo, and then by the canal which 

 unites that river with the Havel, to the city of Berlin. 

 It forms an article in the weekly returns of the Corn 

 market of that capital ; and, by the whiteness of its 

 flour, is preferred for pastry and confectionary. In 

 those years when the prices of Grain have been 

 the most raised in England, some of it has been sent 

 here from Stettin, whilst those of the inhabitants 

 of that neighbourhood who used Wheat, were sup- 

 plied with an inferior kind of their own growth. 



Those other channels, by which the surplus C 



