«I07 THE BEE, OR Ftb. Ij, 



than the average prices of the fame kind of grain in o- 

 ther parts of the kingdom, from whence no exportation 

 has ever been made. — But fo far is this from being the 

 .cafe, that it appears hy the annexed ta )les, copied from 

 the London Gazette, that on an average of ten years 

 paft, the price of wheat in thefe. countries has been at 

 leaft four flaillings a quarter below the average prices 

 of all England f. And if tlie average of the inland coun- 

 ties alone, where the operation of the bounty law can- 

 not take place, had been taken, the price in thefe ma- 

 litime counties would have been nearly eig/jt fhillings 

 the quarter, or one {billing the bufhel lower than the 

 inland counties. — Whether the bounty has been actual- 

 ly the fole caufe of fuch a very great fall in the average 

 price of grain on the fea-coaft, I will not pofitively af- 

 fert ; — but from this palpable faft, there is not any room 



f y^verage Price of Wheat for 

 'January 1770, to the $th 



\% years from the ^th 

 of January 1789. 



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Average, a o 



