his internal
navigation in all the rivers, presented the following results:--

Departures from the different ports
in the interior in 1839, 60,277 barques.
( do. 24,421 rafts.
Arrivals at ( do. 46,850 barques.
( do. 17,469 rafts.

They were the convoys of merchandise
dispatched from the ports
to the value of 737,814,276 rubles ass.
Of merchandise forwarded to do. 538,921,730 ...
In 1837 the values dispatched
from, ascended only to 618,990,306 ...
Do. forwarded to 490,505,940 ...

The various and many basins of river and water communication,
scientifically arranged, and showing how all parts of that vast empire
are connected with each other through all and nearly every portion of
its territorial extent, as in the report before us, is a document worthy
of study and more minute analysis, but our limits forbid.

The foreign commerce of Russia presents the following results for
1841:--

Exports to foreign countries, 86,382,179 silver rubles.
Imports from do. 79,429,490 ...

The Russian official tables include, under the head of foreign commerce,
the exports and imports with Finland and Poland; but as they fall within
the range, in reality, of internal commerce, the accounts are better
simplified by their exclusion. The system of separate returns results,
doubtless, from the political arrangements and conventions by which
Russia acquired the possession of those two countries.

The progress of exports and imports may be thus indicated:--

1838. 1839. 1840.
Exports, 85,718,930 94,857,788 82,731,386 silver rubles.
Imports, 69,693,824 69,993,589 76,726,490 ...

The remarkable excess of exports in 1839 resulted from the large demand
for, and shipments of, corn in that year--the official value of which is
stated at 25,217,027 silver rubles; the smallest export, so far as
value, being that of 1841, valued at 10,382,509 silver rubles only.
Exclusive of corn, the exports would stand thus:--

1838 for 70,562,252 silver rubles.
1839 69,640,761 ...
1840 68,704,971 ...
1841 75,999,670 ...

Gold and silver, in bars or specie, are not comprised in these returns.

For 1841 the values thus exported were, 4,023,728 silver rubles.
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