FISH. FUEL. BUILDING MATERIALS. JZI 



the reader will observe that sedge, that which is more than any 

 the mere product of labour (for the rent of no ground on which 

 this article grew could, for any value of the produce, bear an 

 analogy to coppice land), experiences the least rise in the whole 

 six. 



I now come to building materials. The list is more numerous, 

 and the results will require a rather longer comment. 



s. d. s. d. 

 Lime, quarter i 2\ 2 9! 2-37 



Lime, load, &c 2 9^ 5 5 1-94 



Laths, m 6 3$ 9 3f 1-48 



Do. load 10 o 17 6 1-75 



Plain tiles, m 5 5| 10 i 1-85 



Concave, do. c 9 4 10 I I -08 



Slates, m 5 3 12 o| 2-29 



Tile pins, bushel ... o 8 i 3^ 1-94 



Bricks, m 6 o n 3 1-88 



Planks, c 2 9! 4 5| i'6o 



Lath nails, m o n| I 2\ 1-24 



Board nails, m 4 3| 4 6 1-05 



The average of all these articles gives a difference represented 

 by 171, the older prices being taken as unity. 



The average taken from the four last tables, that of labour, 

 that of fish, that of fuel, and that of building materials, will be 

 found to be contained in the product 1-64. In general terms, 

 then, the relations of value subsisting between labour and these 

 special products, which owe most of their value to the labour 

 expended on them, are found to closely correspond, when they 

 are tested by the averages taken from the price of the services 

 and the products which have been brought together for the 

 purpose of comparison, and are thus seen to be related. 



There are, perhaps, a few of the articles given in the last 

 table in which the later price may be depressed by improve- 

 ments in manufacture, by foreign competition, and perhaps by 

 the fact that during a portion of the time the market was 

 glutted, owing to the dissolution of the monasteries and the 



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