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STATISTICS. 



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fantiirlng countries, the transmissioTi of goods from tlie 

 seats of manufacture to the towns and villages, for t^'" 

 supply of their inhabitants and of the neighbouring dis- 

 tricts. A traffic of this kind it must be at all t'nes 



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difficult to register, and the most that can he done 

 stranger or visitor is to learn the general nature and 

 course of the trade, and to collect opinions as to its 

 amount and condition at various periods of time. L 

 any internal duties, answering to our excise-duties, 

 are charged upon home productions brought into con 

 sumption, their nature and amount should be a 



tained. 



The subject of currency and banking is oi very high 



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importance, and every information concernmg it that cm 

 possibly be had should be carefully obtained. The natu, .; 

 and value of coins in use, their weight and denominatl" . 

 should be noted, and whether means are used to pre''>rt 

 their exportation by laws passed for that purpose, or by the 

 coins being made to contain any considerable portion of 

 baser metaL If any auxiliaries to the use of coin should be 

 established, such as bank or government notes, or trau.l.. 

 in books of public account, as practised in some trading 



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cities in Europe ^ 



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should be described. Until a recent period, the chitr, u 



payments in Fraui*' 



use 



was by the transmission of silver coin ; and it often i...p- 

 pened that public carriages, passing between two pla- 

 in opposite directions, conveyed at the same time --s 

 weight of five-franc pieces. This inconvenient and ^•-- 



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medied by the more general establishing of banks of issue 



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