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An inquiry into the Corn laws and Corn trade of Great Britain and their influence on the prosperity of the Kingdom / Dirom, Alexander. Added a supplement by William Mackie bringing down the consideration of the subject to the present Time, investigating the cause of the present scarcity ...
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à is not quite a£fteenth part of the other.

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2 1 CC RSS à RS D NES TE EE e that England generally produces fifteen times as much Corn as Scotland. Le)

From the fan it appears, that the crop of England generally confifts of eight- twentieths of Wheat, and twelve-twentieths of the inferior Grain overhead; and that

the crop of Scotland generally confifts of one-eighteenth of Wheat, and feventeen- eichteenths of inferior Grain.

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By the ftate of the antient revenue of the Scots Clergy ît would appear, that the

£ that kingdom confifted of about one-thirteenth of Wheat, and twelve-thir-

teenths of inferior Grain. If we confider that the rents of the clergy were, in general, of better Grain than the ordinary payments of the other rents of the country, and that the exportation was chiefiv of inferior grain; if we take the medium of the proportions of the Grain paid to the Clergy, and of that exported, we may conclude with fome degree of certainty;, that the crop of Scotland conffts generally of one-fifteenth of Wheat, and fourteen- fifteenths of inferior Grain. Computing the quartet of Wheat at 405. and that of inferior Grain overhead, at 205. we fhall find that, in England, they have Licht-twentieth parts of Wheat, at 405. L.6316:.50

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And, in Scotland, they bave only One-fifteenth part of Wheat, at 405._= 6e: 2 And fourteen-ffteenths of inferior Grain, at 208. dre.

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Thus the quality being about one-fourth better in England than in Scotland, and the

quantity being about fifteen times as much, the general value of the crop of England, will be about nineteen times as much as that of Scotland.

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