suggested some inferences which may be considered as of no small importance with reference to the general question under discussion.
The work having been originally written in the latter part of 1822 and beginning of 1823, and the object of it being to account for the fluctuation of prices during the thirty years ending in 1822, all allusions to actual prices, and to circumstances connected with them, must be understood as referring to that period, with the exception of a few instances, in which I have distinctly alluded to prices and circumstances of a more recent date.
The Tables of Prices and Quantities in the Appendix to Part IV., with the exception of No. 6, are of the same impression with those which were inserted in the first edition, an extra number having been originally struck off with a view to the contingency of their being, as they now are, available: the saving of expense from this cause admits of the present edition being published at a greatly reduced price.