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 Appendix, No. 2. 



A PAPER DRAWN UP BY MR. CONSUL GIBSON, 

 AT DANTZIC. 



There were cleared at the Custom-House in Thorn, and which 

 came to Dantzic or Elbin : 



and 



These lasts contain 60 scheflfels, but there is generally some 

 over measure. 



Purchases from Polish dealers are made by the last of 62f 

 scheffels; and from Prussian farmers or dealers, by the last of 60 

 schefFels, whereas Grain is sold for shipment per last of 56 

 schefFels. 



The freight and expenses on Grain, from parts above Warsaw, 

 as far as the provinces of Sandomir and Cracow, are at the pre- 

 sent about 14 to 24 dollars, from Volhynia about 18 to 26 

 dollars, and from the nearer parts of Poland, on this side Warsaw, 

 about six to 12 dollars per last, besides which there is the duty 

 at Thorn of about R. 4 per last of 60 scheffels. Twenty to thirty 

 years ago the expenses were from 6 to 10 dollars more, chiefly 

 from higher freights. The expenses depend much upon the 

 condition the Grain arrives in at Dantzic, as the freight does on 

 the distance, 



The loss in measure by pilfering, and on measure and quality 

 by weather, may be estimated at 6 to 10 per cent. ; frequently 

 more, for the Grain chiefly comes down exposed to the open air, 

 and of course suffers more or less, according as the weather is. 

 When the Grain arrives, it is thrown upon the land upon straw 

 mats, and sails over them, and tossed in the air when the weather 

 is dry, till brought into good condition. In rain it is generally 



