young’s TRAVELS IN FRANCE.

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Corn, 1789.

Piedmont. — Coni. — Rye , the eymena of 2 rubbio, or 50 lb. 3 liv.

Cbentale. —Wheat, the eymena of 451b. aver. 47, 3 livres 15/. In common, 3 llvres15/ Maize , 2 livres.

Turin .—Maize, 2 livres. Wheat, 3 livres 1 of. the eymena of 50 lb. Rye , 2 livres10 f.

Milan. —Wheat, 34 livres the moggie of 140 lb. 28 oz. Oats, 15 livre9. Maize ,20 livres. Miglio, 18 livres. Rice , 44 livres.

Codogno . —Rice 5 livres the Jlara. Willow wood, 14 livres 6 braccio long and 3 brae-cio broad. Flax , 5?/! for 5 oz. ready for combing ; 50/i per lb.

Verona. —Wheat, the export prohibited when it exceeds 24 livres the fack (26s. 6d.F.nglilh quarter). Maize , now 24 livres the fack, of 11 pefi , of 23 lb.; common price,from 20 livers to 22 livres ; has been fo low as 6 livres.

Venice. —Wheat flour, 8 \f. per lb. Bergamafque maize, 24/ the quarterole, of 6 lb.Common maize, 22 f

Bologna. —Wheat, the corba, 24 pauls. Maize, 18 pauls. Oats, 12 pauls. Barley ,

16 pauls. Beans, 18 pauls.

Florence. —Wheat , 9 pauls the Jlajo, which may in a rough way be called id. per lb. :this is 4s. gd. per Englilh bufhel, of 57 lb.; and 5s. per bufhel, of good wheat. Beforethe free corn trade, it was on an average, at 5 1 pauls. Beans, now 51 pauls to 7 pauls.Saggina (great millet), 4 pauls the Jlajo. Maize, from 4 pauls to 5 paifls. Barley ,$ pauls. Oats, 4 pauls. French beans, 7 pauls.

Wine, Fuel, Hay, Straw , &c.

Nice. —Wine, 7/. the bottle. Charcoal, 24 f per 100 lb. Wood , 15/ per 100 lb.

Cbentale. —Hay , from §f to 8 f. the rubbio, of 25 lb.

Turin. —Hay, lof. the rubbio, Straw , the fame. Wine ofBrenta, 7 livres 1 of. the36 pints, each 4 lb.; for the poor, 4 livres. Wood , 12 livres the load, of 200 pieces,3 feet long. Charcoal, 12=/. the rubbio. Candles, from 9/ to 1 of. Soap, 7 f.Lime, 5I/I the rubbio. Bricks, 22 livres per thoufand.

Milan. —Iron, the pound of 12 oz. $f. Charcoal, 100 lb. of 28 oz. 3 livres. Bricks,30 livres per thoufand.

Mozzata. —Wine, common price, 10 livres or 12 livres the brenta, now 6 livres.

Milan. —Hemp, ready for fpinning, 1 livre per lb. of 28 oz. Flax , ditto, 32 \f.Oil, linfeed, per lb. of 28 oz. 2(5/1 Walnuts, 1 livre.

Verona. —Wood , 5/. the pefo, of 25 lb. (18 lb. Englilh.)

Vicenza .— Candles, 20 If. Soap, 2of. Dutch herrings, 3 f. each. Iron, 11 f. groffo.Charcoal, from 5 livres to 8 livres the 100 lb. Coals, from Venice, 41 livres the 100 lb.Wood , the carro, of 108 cubical feet, 22 livres; of oppio, walnut, &c. the pieces thefize of a man’s arm. Sugar, from 2.5/. to 35^ fetile. Coffee, 3 livres 6 f. Choco-late, 31 livres or 4 livres ; with vanilla, 6 livres or 7 livres. By the ounce groffo, whichis to the ounce Englilh, as 6go is to 480, is weighed flefh, butter, cheefe, candle, foap,&c. By the ounce fotile, is weighed fugar, coffee, drugs, rice, bread, filk, kc. ; it is as 1is to if.

Ferara.—- Wine, 1 baiocca the beeali.

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