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 15 of Memel, Konigsburg, and Dantzig, considerable supplies of hemp and flax are received; likewise much flax manufactured into yarn.

Let two articles of cultivation be selected for consideration, out of the number that will hereafter offer: viz. hemp and flax.

1st. A new rich soil cannot be otherwise than well suited for their cultivation.

2nd. The climate and temperature will also be suited, because these articles are grown in Russian Poland, the Ukraine, Austria, and Italian States, and in New Zealand, of a peculiarly fine quality. Yorkshire and Ireland likewise produce excellent flax.