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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XXI. Commerce; its decline at CaenFlourishing State of Agriculture Importance of the Apple-treeSociety of AgricultureIntroduction of Lammas WheatCattle-breedingPrince Polig- nac's Merino Flocks Mismanagement of Horses Influence of Horse-jobbingManners and Customs of the PeopleCelebration of Twelfth DayEasterSt. John's EveEmigration of Labourers; its pernicious influence. Caev was formerly one of the most flourishing commercial towns of Normandy. The overflowing of theOrne, which once permitted the larger trading vessels to come up to the port of Caen, whereas those of middling size only can now proceed so far, and even this passage is liable to many impediments, is one of the causes of the gradual decrease of the commerce of Caen. For this reason, the citizens have, for a century past, been proposing a canal system for the Orne, and it is surprising that the only result has hitherto been occasional attempts, which have soon been abandoned again, But the principal cause of the decline of the commerce of Caen lies deeper than in the obstructions thrown in its way by the river. Since Caen has ceased to be one of the capitals of an independentCOMMERCE. 71 province, since the revocation of the edict of Nantes drove away most of its merchants and manufacturers, and especially since the foundation of Havre, commerce must necessarily retire from Caen, and a canal to the sea would make little alteration. The increased activity consequent on the revolution of 1830 seems to have given more life, for a time, to the commerce of Caen; for, whereas in 1825 only 769 vessels entered the port, in 1832 their number amounted to 868 French and 73 foreign, and in 1833 to 919 French and 100 foreign; but it then sunk again to the previous average, and a still gr...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217313438
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 84
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217313434
  • Publisher Date: 31 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 168 gr


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