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the supposition of the price being from 60s. to 

 as to induce any great exertions to increase cul- 

 tivation in the bordering districts on the Vistula. 

 The chance of a rise occasioned by war, by a winter 

 so severe as to injure vegetation, or by a rainy har- 

 vest season, might induce those of a speculative turn 

 to increase their growth of Wheat; but those who 

 have that turn, and have the means of indulging it, 

 are so few, that they would produce no sensible in- 

 crease in the general surplus. 



I see no reason to believe, that with such a Duty 

 as I have mentioned for England, and a Price from 

 60s. to 64.v. and with some similar Regulation in 

 France, that the Surplus Corn produced in Poland, 

 including all the countries near enough to the Vistula 

 to send their Corn to that stream, would materially 

 increase in common seasons, or very much, if at all, 

 exceed the Average produce of that country; the 

 greater part of this might probably be Wheat, and if 

 the duty were alike on all the various qualities of that 

 Grain, none would be sent here but that part which 

 is the driest, heaviest, and whitest. The inferior de- 

 scriptions would not pay for importation, unless the 

 Average in England was much more than 64-y. 



WILLIAM JACOB. 



Corn Returns Office, 9,\st February, 1826. 



