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nufafture which is converfant, about a domeftic primum, replaces not 

 only more quickly, but more certainly, whatever has been drawn, for 

 its fupport, from the capital flock, of the fociety. Materials, produced 

 on the fpot, may be purchafed, the moment they are produced. They 

 may be purchafed, frefh and frefli, as they are wanted. Thus, the 

 money which is to be paid for them need not be idle, or unprodudive 

 a fmgle moment, either in the hands of the manufafturer, who ufes, 

 the farmer, or other perfon, who grows, or in any manner produces 

 the commodity, or of the third perfon, who perhaps negociates be- 

 tween them, and carries on the bufmefs, of tranfporting the commo- 

 dity from one place to another. 



Indeed, the intervention of a third petfon, between the grower, or 

 producer of a home material, and the manufacturer is frequently dif- 

 penfed with. The cafe is far different, in regard to the foreign pri- 

 mum. It mufl:, at all events, remain wholly inert, and unproductive, 

 both on its paffage, from the country, where it is produced, to the 

 country where it is to be employed ; and alfo, during the time it 

 continues, in the warehoufes of the exporting and importing mer- 

 chants. Add to this, that it often happens, that foreign produftions 

 can only be purchafed at certain times and feafons, as where there 

 are great ftated fairs and markets, for the commodity ; in fuch cafe, 

 it may be neceffary for the importing merchant, to purchafe the ar- 

 ticle, which he wants, a confiderablc time, before he has any oppor- 

 tunity of conveying it to the place of its deflination. Here is an 

 additional time, during which the commodity, or rather the value of 

 it, to be deducted from the capital of the country, remains inert and 

 unproduftive. But this is not all ; it is not merely, that a certain 

 portion of the capital of the fociety, amounting to the firfl coll and 

 incident charges, with interefl and profits of the imported commodity, 

 is kept in prifon, and fails of fetting in motion produdive labour propor- 

 - tionable to its amount. There is yet another evil ; the imported commo- 

 dity, as I have obferved, neceffarily remains fome time inert. During 



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