' 6A, Fir timber, including masts and spars,
deals and planks. The masts are brought from
forests in Polish and Russian Ukraine, on the
banks of the rivers Briganskie, De»ia, and
Sbeltz, yvhich are branches of the Dnieper. By
means of this river, and the canal which unites
it with the Dvina, they ate conveyed the whole
distance by water-carriage, and' generally arrive
at Riga in the month of IVby, afiter having been
no -less than eighteen months on Uieir-roQte.
The Riga timber is considered superior to that



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exported from Memel, and bean a much bif^er
price.
Besides these articles, there is a small ex-
portaUoD of iron, soap, and tallow, which how-
erer being cheaper &t St. Petersburgb, am eamt
ia lar greater quantities from thence. The trade
ia pot-ash, which was fiirmerly (a)fisid»idtJe, is
now in a declining state.
