CONTENTS. 



tion in the Netherlands. Spain. Italy. General esti- 

 mate for Europe and America. Quantity reproduced. 

 Trade with India and China. Estimate of the gold trans- 

 mitted by this means. By the trade with the Levant. 

 General estimate of the quantity of coin ; its diminution. 



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CHAPTER XXVII. 



Of the gold and silver of Africa and Asia. African company. 

 Quantity of gold imported by them. General produce 

 very small. Eastern Africa. Silver and gold from Tur- 

 key. Arabia and Persia. Ava, Assam, Tibet, Cochin 

 China. East India Company. Malay peninsula. In 

 China none of the precious metals coined. Indian Is- 

 lands. Mines in Borneo. Japan. Estimate of the 

 whole amount of gold and silver produced in Asia. Of 

 that coined. Small quantity of coin required in China. 

 Chiefly silver. Care taken of it. Stationary prices. 

 Estimate of the quantity of the precious metals con- 

 sumed for private use . . . 324 



CHAPTER XXVIII. 



On the proportion which that gold and silver which is coined 

 bears to that existing in other forms. Consumption 

 greater than the supply from the mines. Consequent use 

 and diminution of the stock of coin. Proportion of coin 

 to silver and gold in the possession of various classes of 

 society. Consideration of each. Of the stock of jew- 

 ellers. Of that in the Bank of England. Total pro- 

 portion. Estimate of proportion in France, the rest of 

 Europe, and America. Of the transfer of one stock into 

 the other at various times 348 



