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dred and fixty-eight thoufand nine hundred and feventy-nine pounds of cocoons, boughtof foreigners *. The filk manufa£lure amounts to a million of crowns (7 livres 10/I ofTufcanyt). Of oil the export is about too, 000 barrils. The year following the ediftof the free commerce of oil and grain, the export amounted to 600,000 fcudi J. Next tooil, hogs are the greateft export, to the amount of from twenty to thirty thoufand in
a year.
The average of the quantity of filk made in Tufcany, and regirt:ered in the tribunalof Florence, from 1769 to 1778, was one hundred and fixty-five thoufand one hun-dred and fixty-eight pounds ; and the import of foreign filk, forty-eight thoufand fourhundred and feventy pounds; together, two hundred and thirteen thoufand fix hundredand forty-nine pounds yearly §.
Modena. —In 1771, the following were the exports of the Modenefe:
Livres.
Brandy 50,000 po'tds ,
Wine, 150,000 ditto,
Oxen, 5,232 head,
Cows, 3,068 ditto,
Wethers and goats, 23,500 ditto,
Pigs, 21,900 ditto,
Linen, hemp, facks, &c. 1,800,000 braccio,Hogs falted, 1,900 poids,
Poultry, ...
Hats of ftraw and chip,
Ditto of woollen, - •
Grofs fabrics of wool,
Butter, ...
Hemp, fpun or prepared, 13,900 poids,Wax , - - -
Silk, 77,6501b. -
Honey, - -
Cheefe, -
Chefnuts, -
593.280428,222
1,569,60°
613,400
69,150
141,048
347.280
3 2 9 5 H5
1,442,327
24,479
24,342
145, 3 ° 8
23,205
83,362
106,240
348,000
74,400
3 » 8 97 , 3 12
15 , 35 °
9 8 >556
17,440
81,320
1°,472,7 66
All thefe are by the regifters of the farms \ the contraband is to be added.-—Ex-portation is now greater than in 1771.
Parma. —The firft trade and export of the country is filk ; the next cattle andhogs.
There is but one conclufion to be drawn from this detail of the commerce of Lom-bardy , namely, that eighteen-twentieths of it confift in the export of the produce ofagriculture, and therefore ought rather to be efteemed a branch of that art, than ofcommerce, according to modern ideas ; and it is equally worthy of notice, that thug
* Penfieri Ap. Apol. p. 56. f lb p. 57. J lb. p. 59,
§ Ragionamente Sopra Tojcano, p. 161.
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