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Cattle is kept, more of the Land is destined to Clover 

 and other given Crops ; and I should judge, from 

 their flourishing appearance, that, like England, the 

 growth of Corn does not exhaust the Land so much, 

 as the stock of Cattle, by their manure, renews its 

 prolific qualities. The Woollen, Linen, and Cotton 

 Manufactures are numerous, and I was told, flourish- 

 ing; and as all manufactured goods from foreign 

 countries are either excluded or charged with high 

 duties in Austria, the demand of that extensive 

 empire creates a vent for the native goods, though at 

 the expense of the consumers, who perhaps in most, 

 certainly in many cases, might get better and cheaper 

 goods. After passing through poorer districts, I was 

 much impressed, throughout Moravia, with the striking 

 practical exemplification of the beneficial effects of 

 Manufactures on the prosperity of the Agriculturists. 



In Vienna I had opportunities of hearing much of 

 the condition of the Landed Proprietors in Hungary. 

 The want of vent for their v surplus Corn has so de- 

 pressed the prices of that, and^ther productions of the 

 Soil, that they are said to be losing by even- article 

 they raise, excepting Wool; though, from farming 

 their own Lands, they have no rent to pay, yet the 

 greatest difficulty is encountered in collecting the 

 trifling taxes that are levied upon them. 



Although so near to Moravia, the Carpathian 

 mountains are too lofty and rugged to admit of con- 

 veyance thither. The mouths of the Danube are so 

 infested with marauders, Wallachians, Besarabians, 

 and Turks, that no safe export can be made to the 

 Black Sea. In times of great scarcity in the maritime 

 countries, some Wheat may be conveyed to the port of 

 Trieste; but it will be seen by the prices in the 

 Appendix, No. 31, that it is too low at that market 

 to afford a land carriage of four hundred miles. 

 Though Presburgh^is the chief market fbr the Wheat 



