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What may be the exact cost of the cultivation of hemp in Russia and Poland it is very difficult to conjecture; but it is known to be generally produced on the estates of, perhaps, the most expensive aristocracy in the world. It passes under the control of Managers and Agents, until it reaches the first dealers in contracts; it then comes to others upon a more extended scale, and finally arrives at the ports of shipment, with all its accumulated charges of commissions, profits,