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account given of the produce of Walachia is, chap. 
moreover, always exaggerated ; for such are ■ 
the blighting effects of the most selfish des- 
potism, that cultivation is throughout neglected : 
if the peasant, by any contrivance, can barely 
obtain the means of subsistence, he seeks for 
nothing beyond it. The whole population of Population. 
Biikorest does not exceed eighty thousand in- 
dividuals; but the number of carriages kept 
amounts to four thousand. The fact is, that the 
streets are often almost impassable in any other 
way than upon wheels ; and even in this man- 
ner it is not always easy to go through them. 
The Prince sent his own carriage to conduct 
Mr. Cripps and Mr. Summerer to his audience ; 
but in the way thither, the drivers were unable 
to proceed ; and these gentlemen were under 
the necessity of making application to the 
principal Boyar for persons to assist in con- 
ducting the carriage to the Palace. The Commerce, 
account given by the merchants of Bukorest of 
their commerce makes it, however, very con- 
siderable : the whole of the trade is in the hands 
of Greeks. The exports, according to their 
statement of them, consist of luool, butter, wheat, 
barley, honey, yellow berries^, tallow, ivax, and 
(1) " Graines d'Auignon," called, iu Turkish, Zrf7ff7/i'er. (Cripps's 
MS. Journal.) — These berries are the fruit of the Rhamnus alaternus, 
a shrub 
