The Prussian ports, including Dantzic, export al most the whole of the commercial productions of Poland, consisting of corn, fir planks and rafters, masts, hemp, tar, pitch, potash, hides and tallow, leather, honey and wax ; besides Pomeranian oak, brandy, woollens, linens, caviar, and amber. The im ports are wines, coffee, sugar, tobacco, spices, salt, iron, copper, Spanish wool, herrings, and flax seed from Livonia and Courland. Towards the close of the last century, the merchant marine of the Prussian ports on the Baltic, consisted of between 900 and 1000 ships. Salted and smoked meat, hides, wool, butter, cheese, corn and fruits, are the exports of that part of Pomerania which belonged to Sweden and Mecklenburgh ; the corn of the latter is princi pally taken off by England ; that of Pomerania, as well as the fruits, used to go to Sweden.
The following table exhibits the exports and im ports of Russia, so far as her commerce in the Baltic is concerned, in the beginning of this century The commercial marine of Russia is very small ; the total number of her merchant-vessels that navi gate the Baltic and the Ocean, not exceeding 50; 100 smaller vessels carry on the coasting-trade of the Baltic ; and about 100 craft of 20 or 30 tons are employed in loading and discharging the vessels at Cronstadt, that cannot enter the Neva. At the
close of the year 1807, the Russian Baltic fleet con sisted of 20 sail of the line, 14 frigates, six brigs and cutters, and 19 small craft ; and the Baltic flo tilla, of 20 gullies, 25 floating-batteries, 81 gun boats, and 16 yauls.
During the year 1815, there passed the Sound, in wards and outwards, in January, 45 ships ; in Febru ary, 17; in March, 147 ; in April, 692 ; in May, 1243; in June, 1104; in July, 1476; in August, 1171 ; in September, 1251 ; in October, 783 ; in November, 542; and in December, 274 ; making a total, in the course of the year 1815, of 8745.In the height of the season, not fewer than 100 vessels pass every four. and-twenty hours, for many weeks in succession.
See Thomson's Travels in Sweden Tableau de la Mer Baltique, par Catteau ; Tableau des Etats Danois, par Catteau ; Macpherson's edition of An derson's History of Commerce ; Oddy's European Commerce; Maritime Geography and Statistics-, by Tuckey, Vol. I. (c.)