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GERMANY PRUSSIA.

The exports from Prussia to the United Kingdom consist almost entirely of agricultural produce. The chief articles are wheat, ex- ported to the amount of 2,643,848/. in 1869 ; other kinds of corn to the value of 1,151,359/.; and wood and timber to the amount of 847,389/. in 1869. The chief items of British imports into Prussia are iron, wrought and unwrought, to the value of 673,048/. ; herrings in barrels, to the value of 273,716/. ; and cotton yarn, to the value of 603,581/. in the year 1869.

The principal Prussian ports are Memel, Pillau, Kbnigsberg, Danzig. Colberg, Swinemiinde, Stettin, Wolgast, Stralsund, Kiel and Flensburg on the Baltic, and Altona, Harburg, Geestemunde, Leer and Em den on the North Sea, The merchant navy of Prussia on Jan. 1, 1870, numbered 3,272 vessels, of a total burthen of 642,805 tons. Included in the number were 60 steamers, of an aggregate burthen of 9,690 tons. As regards the chief ports, Danzig had 144 ships; Stettin 188; Memel 106 ; Barth 242 ; Greifswald 57 ; Wol- gast 62 ; Ueckermiinde 41 ; and Konigsberg 15. The former Hano- verian ports had 932 ships, of 125,372 tons burthen ; and Schleswig- Holstein, besides a large number of small craft, 713 large ships, of a burthen of 107,384 tons, in 1870. The tonnage of the mercantile navy of the kingdom of Prussia, in 1864, was larger than that of Russia, but only two-thirds that of the Netherlands. In 1870 it surpassed that of the navies of commerce of both Russia and the Netherlands.

The mineral riches of Prussia are very considerable. An account of the chief industries based thereon is given in the following tables, which show the number of mines, smelting works, and foundries in operation, the quantities and value of their produce in 1869, and the number of persons, with their families, employed by them at the end of the same year : —

Mines

Number of Mines and Works in operation

Quantities of produce

Value

of

produce

Number of

persons employed

Coal .... Peat (Braunkohle) Iron ore Zinc ore Lead ore Copper ore. Total of principal and 1 other mines. j

426

554

1,167

68

187

45

Centner

475,221,881

120,293,754

57,911,389

8,010,706

1.902.033

4.290.142

Thaler 44,795,325 5,525,270 4,418,273 2.826,546 5,098,295 1.677.755

111.325 15,058 25,190 10,709 19,261 6,691

2,616

667,629,905

67,220,335

191,252