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the average of the period, 21,381 quarters annually; 

 that of Rye has been 1,618,000, or, on an average, 

 134,822 per year; and that of both kinds of Grain, 

 the exportation in the two years 1817 and 1818 

 exceeded that of the other ten years. 



Although the route by which I returned from 

 Poland was through countries which have no direct 

 influence on the Corn trade of England, yet, as 

 remotely connected with countries that do affect it, 

 it may not be improper to add a few of the observa- 

 tions and facts which presented themselves as I passed 

 through them. 



The Austrian province of Moravia is very fertile; 

 and, with the exception of some districts of the 

 Netherlands, scarcely any part 'of the Continent is so 

 well cultivated. It bears, too, a larger proportion of 

 Wheat than in other districts in the East of Europe. 

 Of the winter Corn, Wheat is estimated at one-fourth, 

 and Rye at three-fourths ; whereas, in the adjoining 

 province of Silesia, the land sown with lye is nearly 

 ten times that sown with Wheat. Moravia is de- 

 fended by the Carpathian mountains from the east 

 winds ; and the harvest, the whole way from Teschen 

 to Olmutz, and indeed to Brunn, is nearly six weeks 

 earlier than in Silesia. I certainly heard complaints 

 of the distressed state of agriculture there, but less of 

 it, and 1 think with less reason, than in any other part. 



Wheat, at Olmutz, was selling for 20.?. per quarter, 

 whilst on one side at Cracow, it was selling for 14*. 

 and on the other side, at Vienna, for 14,?. Id. 



This better state of things arose from the circum- 

 stance of Moravian agriculture finding domestic con- 

 sumers. It is the chief manufacturing province of 

 the Austrian empire. A greater proportion of the 

 population can afford to live on Meat, and to use 

 Wheaten Flour; and hence the Agriculturists find a 

 market near home for their productions. The demand 

 for animal food, too, being greater, a greater stock of 



