93 



*.' d. 



Cost of the quarter of Wheat at Warsaw 28 

 Conveyance to the boats, and charges for 



loading and stowing, and securing It 



by mats - - - "0 6 



Freight to Dantzic - - 5 



Loss on the passage, by pilfering, and 



by rain causing it to grow 3 



Expenses at Dantzic, in turning, drying, 



screening, and warehousing, and loss 



of measure - - - - - 2 d 

 Profit or commission, as the case may 



be, to the merchant at Dantzic - 1 6 



Freight, primage, insurance, and shipping 



charges, at Dantzic and in London - 8 



48 



In ascending the Vistula, beyond Warsaw, as the 

 quality of the Grain improves, the expenses on the 

 conveyance of it to the mouths of that river increase 

 also. 



I could "have wished at Cracow to have obtained 

 the Prices' for a longer series of years than are to be 

 found in the Appendix, No. 23. Before the times 

 with which that account begins, that part of Poland 

 had used as the medium of exchange the depreciated 

 paper money of Austria; and I had no scale by 

 which to measure the variations, at different periods, 

 between that currency and the silver money, which 

 has been since the sole medium for the exchange of 

 commodities. An account, therefore, for an earlier 

 series of years, would have produced only perplexity 

 and uncertainty ; the verbal information I obtained 

 was, in general terms, that there had been no fluc- 

 tuations in the price of Corn, before the retuni .of 

 peace, nearly approaching to those which have been 



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