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go toour fil.cre.The hectm' ls. 2540 toises, or J0,000 metres, two âéresand aha]f, and almost eight perches: or to the acre as live ta two;ded.ucting from two, one~fiftieth.The are is a hundred metres. Correct ca1cu]atic:>lls cannot he hopedfor, ex.oept by aperfeet collation Qf weights and measures betweeB thetwo cOlHltries, on the _'Jport; and t"büs is Bot easily effected. U ntiJ, hmv~ever,. thiss takes place, we must tak;e up with approximaHons; but acresand roods, bushels and quarters, galloBs and hogsheacls, aJonecoBveyaccu'rate ideas uponthe state of production and value. It 1l.1~ bejruclged mrw Hable a stra1nger is to suffer by his ignorance in auy country,intheservespects; hut this ls 110t the matter here. Having ttied t()co.mmunicate wl1at insight couJd be obtained on this subject, that ofagriculture shaH now he brorugh;t toaconclusion.Letting of land lsnot the practicc; .but whendol'1c, it is considerèdthàt 1t ought to pay the proprietr four per cent for his purchase~money.Ifh·ehold it liinlself, he expects it should pay him ten.'l'he tax of fivepe?' ce'iftumoB property, es·timated by tl1e o]d cadastre, but not, in faet,live upon one thousand in the present day, is laid on the farmer, andaUow.ed hy the ]andlord; as is theaetroi or market-düty, paid on sale,anElapplièd tolecal purposes. This may he considered as two-and~a-halfpet· eent.Ifthemeridionalfarmer getsin the market two pounds ten shilliBgsperEnglisb acre for his wbeat crop, he is paid for his laBd; otherWise;net. ~rhe maximum he lS permitted to expert at, is tl1reepounds twelveshillings. The produce of t11is acr~ in wheat.may he averaged at fortyeightstone.Theabove maximum is art the rate of forty shillings.theEnglish quarter *.>If, .Priees at Dantzig for nine years :-55, 47, 53, 75, 59, 46, 36, 41, and 52 shillings.Priees, Wismar, per last, of thirtèen quarters and a half, 34t. 145. 7d.----In th&'