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BAH
159
The direction in which the dealer sent his stock was also partly influenced by his residence, by his mercantile connexions and their locality but after making all these allowances, the conclusion is nearly inevitable that some of the transactions and prices cannot be explained by any ordinary principles of commercial dealing. The prices of grain in the scarcity of 1869-70 are given in the following table from the Government Gazette. It unfortunately contains no reference to kodo.
Statement op Prices.
