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convey silver to the eastward, she now receives itfrom that part of the globe. Thus it is seen,“ that in the year 1829, there were received atPetropaulousk from China two thousand fourhundred and sixty ounces of silver, and in 1830three thousand five hundred and seventy-eightounces. At Semipalatinsk there were receivedeighty-three thousand seven hundred ounces in1829, and in 1830 eighty-nine thousand sixhundred and forty ounces.” We see, also, that“ the Boukhares and the Taschkenes had broughtto Irbit , in the last year, ninety-four thousandfive hundred ounces 1 .”
It is seen by the translations in the Appendix ,No. 15, that the importations and exportationson the extreme eastern frontier of Russia nearlybalanced each other, so that there could be littlenecessity for the transmission of the preciousmetals, but that little has been in favour ofRu ssia. It is, however, different with thatbranch of the trade which passes through Teflis,where the imports of the last two years have ex-ceeded the exports. This may have caused thetransmission of some gold or silver. The amountof this appears to be but small, and if not quiteequalled by what must have flowed in a contrarydirection by way of Siberia , cannot be very farshort of it.