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90 The total length of railways in Austria, exclusive of Hungary, at the end of 1903 was 12.657·18 miles, of which 30·99 per cent. are in Bohemia. Austria's railways length pro 100.000 heads of population is 48.38 miles, Bohemia's 62·08 miles.

The natural commercial roads of Bohemia are the rivers Labe (Elbe) and Vltava (Moldau) forming a line of 354·62 navigable miles.

There are in Bohemia 499·90 miles of rivers navigable by rafts, 220.6 miles navigable by rafts and vessels, and 119·92 miles by steamers.

On the river Elbe, brown coal, sugar, timber, barley, fruit, flour are exported to Germany. Export goods for transatlantic countries are transported on the Elbe, as far as Hamburg, where they are laden on the ocean steamers. Up the stream of the Elbe, iron, rice, cotton etc. are imported into Bohemia.

There is under construction an elaborately detailed technical scheme for the connection of the rivers Vltava and Labe with the Danube.

When this has been carried out, Bohemia will be traversed by a magnificient navigable waterway connecting it with the German ocean and the Black Sea.

GENERAL ON EXPORT TRADE.

In the export and import trade of Austria-Hungary no separate statistical data are available showing the magnitude of the trade of Bohemia, or any other district, apart from the rest of the Monarchy. But the proportion taken in some export branches by Bohemia can be estimated, as Bohemian industry represents 48 per cent. in stone, glass and earthen ware, 35 per cent. in machinery, 35 per cent. in paper, 34 per cent. in metals, 31 per cent. in leather, 31 per cent. in wood and bone, 30 per cent. in textiles, 20 per cent. in chemicals, of the whole Empire of Austria.

Only in one case can the predominating position of Bohemia in the export trade be given in exact numbers.

In the year 1904, the value of exports from