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 19 {| Leaving for the Colonist £44 per ton, or 5s.6d. per stone.
 * The deductions will be, Freight.
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 * Premium for Insurance . ..
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 * London Charges . . . . ..
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The question in this case is simple—Whether land, rent free, unencumbered with poor rates, tythes, and taxes, cannot be cultivated for the produce of flax to much greater advantage than the difference between 7s. and 5s. 6d. per stone? Any person will answer that the cost will be more considerably reduced, and certain and early returns may be relied upon.

It is unnecessary to trouble ourselves with speculations upon the cost of flax in Russia, Poland, Holland or elsewhere; we have here a data that cannot deceive the Adventurer.