Volhynia is represented to be a district of extra- 

 ordinary fecundity. The pastures are said to be lux- 

 uriant, the grass growing so high as almost to hide 

 the cattle, and yielding the richest nourishment to 

 them. The Corn is said to increase in common years 

 ten-fold, in spite of bad agriculture ; and a failure, or 

 veiy deficient harvest, does not occur two or three 

 times in a century. 



On referring, however, to the Official Harvest Re- 

 turns of the Russian empire, as quoted in the Er- 

 debeschreibung of Hassel, a German work of the 

 highest authority, it will be seen that, in this pro- 

 vince, the increase of Grain in the year 1802 was 

 very little more than four times the quantity sown. 



The Russian tschetwert, being reduced into Eng- 

 lish quarters, reckoning the tschetwert at two-thirds 

 of the quarter, the following result appears : 



Quarters. 



Sowed - - Winter Corn .... 322,456 

 Do. - - Summer do. .... 313,244 



635,700 



Harvested - Winter Corn ... 1,349,523 

 Do. - - - Summer do. - - - 1,277,310 



2,626,832 



Used for Seed, for f Winter Corn - 327,804 

 the next year \ Summer do. - 316,996 



644,800 



