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The  average  raie  of  freight  of  flour,  (hiring  last  season,  from  the  ports
on  Lake  Ontario  to  Montreal,  was  about  25  cents  per  barrel:  a  consider-
able quantity  was  carried  for  Is.  per  barrel.
To  Quebec  the  average  was  35  cents,  with  a  good  deal,  carried  at  30
eents  per  barrel.
To  ports  on  Lake  Champlairj  40  cents  |)or  barrel  will  hare  been  the
average  rates,  with  some  in  midsummer  at  la.  M.  per  barrel.
The  rate  from  ih.uiingtoii  to  Now  V'oik  was  about  2-:i  cents  per  barrel.
The  rate  from  ports  on  Lake  Erie  would  exceed  that  from  Lake  On-
tario by  about  15  cents  per  barrel.
We  do  not.  believe  that  in  the  present  state  of  the  trade  and  the  public
communications,  any  reduction  on  the  rates  of  last  year  can  be  looked
for;  an  increase  thereon  is  rather  to  be  apprehended,  unless  a  larger  and
more  upward  freight  can  be  obtained.
The  average  time  occupied  in  performing  the  voyage  cannot  be  stated:
a  large  share  of  the  business  of  the  past  season  was  done  by  steamers,
.but  the  chief  prt.portiou  is  still,  and  we  think  will  continue  to  be,  done
by  sailing-vessels.  Freight  steamers,  laden  with  2.'A)U  or  3,1)00  barrels  of
flour,  occupied  about  three  days  in  running  horn  Hamilton  to  this  port;
of  which  time  about  one-third  was  passed  in  the  St.  Lawrence  canals.
