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unloaded within six hours of notice of arrival, or a fine of 6/- perday has to be paid. Most of the factories and coal depots havewater frontage; but there is no railway in Germany that hasany wharfage, and therefore the cost of carriage from theRailway Station averages another 3/- a ton.

Very little Silesian Coal is exported now, hut as soon as itcan be brought to Stettin for 12/- a ton, it will he able tocommand a considerable share of the Baltic Coal Trade.

Of the manufactured goods, such as Iron , Steel, Cloth,Hardware, Lime, Cement, &c., the larger part finds its way toBerlin and Stettin , and of course is under still greater disadvan-tages than coal respecting high freights.

The freight for ordinary manufactured goods in quantitiesof not less than 10 tons between Berlin and Breslau is from38s. 3d. to 23s. per ton. Between Stettin and Berlin from 10s.to 5s. 7d. per ton, and between Stettin and Breslau from 46s. to27s. per ton.

Now as regards the traffic on the Oder , upstream fromStettin , it can be explained very briefly. The barges from Stettincn route for Berlin require to he tugged up to the mouth of theKnow Canal or the Friedrich Wilhelm ’s Canal , as the river notbeing tidal flows only in one direction, downstream. Thereforebetween these points there is already a considerable up traffic.Higher up, the currents and the smaller depth of water presentgreater obstacles to ordinary sail navigation, while the cost oftug steamers is too great to allow of their being generally used.(Nevertheless the First Stettin Tug Company paid dividends lastyear of 38 per cent., and the new Company dividends of 10 percent.) Between the month of the river Warthe and the Finow andFriedrich Wilhelm ’s Canal , there is a very considerable traffic intimber, mostly coming from Poland . In 1871, the OranienburgLock (Finow Canal ) passed 14,759 floats of timber, and theNeuhaus Lock (Friedrich Wilhelm’s Canal) 2,190 floats (9logs = 1 float); these quantities have since then largelyincreased.