552 



(Troatia. 



t'omnrierce. 



can be brought to the market. Such, indeed, only as 

 grows in the vicinity of the coast is of any use in this 

 respect ; and the city of Fiume is even obliged to draw 

 its cargoes from the forests of China in Carniola. Mar- 

 kets for cattle are held several times a year near Fiume, 

 where large herds are brought down from the interior 

 for exportation to Italy and Venice, and are generally 

 exchanged for salt. In 1801, the military district of 

 Carlstadt alone furnished cattle to the value of 234,383 

 florins 37 kreutchers. The other exports of Croatia are 

 honey and wax, to Venice, Trieste, and Messina; glass 

 to Italy ; and also some sugar, cordage, cloth, &c. 



The principal imports of Croatia, for its own consump- 

 tion, consist in sea-salt, Dalmatian wine, oil, sugar, 

 maize, and hemp. 'The salt is derived chiefly from the 



CROATIA. 



Venetian Islands, and also from Barletta and Manfredo- Croatia, 

 nia, in the kingdom of Naples. The consumption of ~"~"* / 



this article in the military districts alone, was valued, in Comrr ' erre ' 

 1801, at 230,000 florins. The annual importation of 



wine from Dalmatia amounts to 700,000 florins, and of 

 brown sucar, for the refining house at Fiume, to about 

 600,000 florins. A considerable quantity of maize is 

 brought from Romania and the Venetian Islands, which 

 is used by the inhabitants of the coast, and of the adja- 

 cent mountains of Carniola, in making their bread and 

 polenta. In the eastern districts of Croatia, however, as 

 well as in Sclavonia and Hungary, this grain is used 

 only for feeding pigs. A more precise idea of the na- 

 ture and importance of Croatian commerce will be deri- 

 ved from the following Tables : 



Articles exported in the year 1 780. 



Tobacco, 24,905 



Wool, 158 



Cheese, 23 



Tallow and soap, 209 



Corn, 22,762 



Charcoal, 28,612 



Staves, 158,935 



Potash, 1249 



Hides, 381 



Honey and Wax, 598 



Glass-ware, 267 



Refined sugar, 3883 



Syrup, 929 



Dried and salted fish, 330 



Salted meat, 413 



Cordage . . . . 218 



Prunes, 97 



quintals. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



sacks. 



pamers. 



quintals. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



Articles imported in the year 1784. 



Cotton, to the amount of 35,000 florins. 



Coffee, 67,000 do. 



Hides, 22,000 do. 



Hemp, 48,000 do. 



Maize and other corn, 148,000 do. 



Citrons, 6000 do. 



Linen, 19,000 do. 



Olive oil, 38,000 do. 



Paper, 6000 do. 



Rite, 9000 do. 



Sea salt, 54,000 do. 



Wine from Austria, 28,000 do. 



Do. from foreign countries, 26,000 do. 



Brown sugar, 369,000 do. 



Value of articles imported and exported daring the years 1793 and 1794, at the sea-ports of Fiume, Bnccari, Porto- 

 Re, Czirkvenicze, Szelcze, and Novi. 





Imported. 



il.XPOR.TEn. 



1793. 



1794. 



! 1 793. 



1794. 



From the maritime provinces of 1 

 Balance in favour of the country, . 



Florins. 

 478,376 

 689,507 



Kr. 

 44 

 34 



Florins Kr- 

 567,003 51 

 569,672 53 



Florin.-'. 



422,298 



1,626,75 i 



Kr. 



45^ 

 39 



4 Florins. Kr. 

 972,684 4.-91 

 876,933 45| 



1,167,834 



18 



1,136,676 44 



2,049,053 



1,167,884 



244 

 18 



1,840,618 35 

 1,136,676 44 



881,169 



61 



712,942 50 











The number of vessels which arrived at the above 

 ports, in 179i, was 2375, and 2353 departed. 



The commerce of this country suffers greatly from the 

 want of proper means of conveyance. None of its na- 

 vigable rivers run towards the Adriatic, but, taking an 

 easterly direction, fall into the Danube, whose lengthen- 

 ed course, after it receives their waters, before it reaches 

 the ocean, renders them of very little service in expe- 

 diting the conveyance of its produce towards the coast. 

 These rivers are also of very difficult navigation. Im- 

 mense trees half sunk in their bed, requires the greatest 

 '.iddress on the part of the sailors to avoid ; and indeed, 



the circumstance of these rivers being so frequently lia- 

 ble to change their course, piecludes all expectation that 

 these defects will ever be completely remedied. At- 

 tempts were made some years ago to facilitate the navi- 

 gation of the Save; but it has as yet come to nothing, 

 though the estates of Carniola voted 12,000 florins for 

 the purpose. It was also in contemplation, in 1771, to 

 render the Culpa navigable from Carlstadt to Brod, which 

 would have been of vast importance to the commerce of 

 Hungary. The project was renewed in 1800 by .1 so- 

 ciety, at the head of which was the Bishop of A gram ; 

 but no decided measures have yet been taken for its ac- 

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