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is remarked by the celebrated Dr. Tissot, ** There 
‘* is not the fmalleft province, except part of Lap- 
«¢ Jand, where corn is not the bafis of their nourifh- 
“ment.” He adds, that, “ Of all foods,:cwheaten 
“© bread, well made, is the moft wholefome.”’* ~The 
importance of bread-corn to this country’ was fuffi- 
ciently evinced in the year 1795. The fearcity then 
arofe at a time when there .was no ‘want of animal 
food, and the earth ‘yielded other vegetable food in 
abundance; yet the dread of wanting this ove article 
for a few weeks only, previous to the corn harvelt, 
fpread an univerfal gloom throughout the nation! 
It is not becaufe wheat is one of the principal ‘pra- 
‘duétions of the land, that I have, ‘in my former flay, 
chofen it for a ftandard. It is on account of its be- 
ing an indifpenfable neceffary of life; the ‘price of 
‘which, as it is in various places remarked, by the 
excellent author of the Wealth of Nations, ‘ regu- 
*Jates that of all other commodities.—It regulates 
**the money-price of labour, which mutt always be 
“*¢ fuch as to enable the labourer to purchafea quan- 
“tity of corn, fufficient to maintain him and his 
“family.” 
It is not meant that labour, or the! produceyof 
labour, rifes and falls with the market-prices‘of corn, 
as thofe prices fluftuate from day to day, mor per- 
“haps from year to year; but the price'of this'article, 
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* Letter to Dr. Hinze, of Zurich, on Bread-Corn. 
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