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conveniences which are occafioned by this kind of 

 of food in other places. 



It is happy for the inhabitants of thofe countries 

 where corn will not grow, that they are able to fub- 

 fift without bread, and where nothing is produced 

 to give in exchange for thofe things they want ; 

 and it is alfo a great happinefs, that in countries 

 which produce nothing, but where the induflry of 

 the people brings in a great deal of money, they 

 can, with that money, import from foreign parts, 

 and fometimes from very diftant places, a fpecies of 

 provifion which will bear very long voyages, and 

 may be preferved many years unhurt 3 but mofl 

 other grains can be kept only a little time, and will 

 not bear exportation fo well. 



In 17 13, wheat fold here at fix livres the French 

 quarter, v/hich came to at leaft twenty-eight livres 

 the quintal; and the quantity that each perfon was 

 allowed to purchafe, was regulated. About eight 

 years ago it was nearly that price, and a like fear- 

 city may be again experienced. 



There would have been a famine in Switzerland, 

 if they had not imported grain, not only from Pied- 

 mont and Milan, but alfo from Sicily and Barbary. 



Maize, 



