Excerpt from Universal Geography, Vol. 5: Or, a Description of All the Parts of the World on a New Plan, According to the Great Natural Divisions of the Globe; Accompanied With Analytical, Synoptical, and Elementary Tables
The information contained in this chapter, has been wholly derived from the reports of Mr. Jacob, a late and very intelligent writer on the agriculture of Prussia.
The observations of Mr. Jacob are confined to the three maritime provinces. As it was the special object of his instructions to inquire into the state of the countries from which corn had been exported to England, his attention was chiefly directed to the state of these provinces, and, also, but in a less degree, to that of Brandenburg. The three provinces which communicate with the Baltic sea, and which, since the conventional partitions at the end of the last war, form part of the Prussian dominions, are West Prussia, East Prussia, and Pomerania. All of them, as has been already remarked, are a portion of that vast and sandy plain, which extends from the shores of Holland to the extremity of Asiatic Russia. The heights are too insignificant to merit the appellation of hills; and such places as are not covered with wood, are large and open plains. The soil, in some places, consists of barren sand, exhibiting no appearance of vegetation, in many parts no attempt at cultivation, and what is cultivated seems to yield but scanty returns. It is not then extraordinary that the landed property in these provinces should have fallen so much in value, both because they cannot be compared with the other parts of the Prussian monarchy, where the soil and climate are much more favourable to production; and because it is an admitted truth, and one on which Mr. Jacob insists, that under a great depreciation in the price of corn, the poorer lands are subject to a greater proportionate fall in their sale price than the more fertile soils.
It appears from official accounts, that 447,183 quarters of wheat, and 1,218,916 quarters of rye, barley and oats, have been exported from them, independently of their own produce, during the nine years previous to the end of 1824.
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