s 
22, 
have been long e6utlived by the poem of 
their encomiaft. Wood is now very {carce 
in the ifland, but the foil has not loft its 
former fruitfulne/s. 
‘The Strophadian ifles are but of a {mail 
compafs. The mythologiits confidered 
them as the refidence of the harpies, after 
they had been banifhed from Bithynia. 
In the A2gean fea, the French republic 
poffeffes the ifle of Cythera, now called 
Cerigo, lamentably fallen from that high 
ftate of celebrity, which it anciently deriv- 
ed from the temple and worthip of Venus. 
Of all its ancient charms nothing now 
remains, but fome pleafant fruitful vallies. 
Modern French Greece offers the bef 
opportunity for fubduing all ancient 
Greece, wnich will not remain unim- 
proved. N. 

Yo the Editar of the Monibly Magazine. 
i. ESIR, 
OUR correfpondent * * *, expreffes 
much furprize, that it is not generally 
underftood that money confitutes xo part 
of the wealth of a nation; but I appre- 
hend there are many who will be equaily 
furprized at fuch an affertion. The fub- 
ject is not, perhaps, fo little underftood 
as he imagines; and though it is generally 
admitted, that money being nothing but 
the reprefentative of labour and commo- 
dities, the greater er lefs plenty of it is of 
mo material coniequence, if we confider 
any nation by itfelf; as the prices of all 
other commodities will be regulated in 
‘proportion to the quantity of . money in 
circulation; yet it appears equally evi- 
dent, that if we confider a nation in its 
commercial and political connections with 
other countries, the money it pofieffes 
forms a very important part of its wealth; 
independent of the intrituc value of the 
metal, as an article which may be con- 
verted to other ufeful purpoies, which: 
alone would entitle it to be confidered as 
fome part of the wealth of a.nation. 
If a country produces more of a parti- 
cular commedity than the inhabitants can 
confume, fuch furplus is confidered as a 
part of its wealth, becaufe it can be ex- 
cnanged with other countries for feme ar- 
ticle which the country producing the 
furplus may want; but it 1s an inconve- 
nient {pecies of wealth, becaufe the coun- 
try poficfling the article wanted may have 
no occafion for the article to be difpofed 
of, and therefore will not accept it in ex- 
change, whereas, if the furplus produce 
is foid for its value in money, the latter 
can readily be converted at any time, into 
the article wanted, and certainly the 
Maitey part of a Nation's Wealth. 
country cannot be faid to poffefs lefs 
wealth, when, inftead of the furplus of 
commodity, it poflefles its value in mo- 
ney, which will purchafe an equal, or 
perhaps greater quantity, of the article 
tor which the furplus produce would have 
been exchanged: 
The diftin@ion between the circulating 
capital, which muft always exift in a com= 
mercial country, and the nett revenue, or 
profit, of the country, muit not be over- 
looked; ‘‘ money, the great wheel ef cir- 
culation, the great initrument of com- 
merce, like all other inftruments of trade, » 
though it makes a part, and awery valu- 
able part of the capital, makes no part of 
_the revenue of the fociety to which it be- 
longs*’’; but till it can be proved, that 
an equal profit could be derived without 
any fuch capital, money, which forms a 
moft ufeful part of it, and which enables” 
a nation to command the produce and la- 
bour of other countries, mutt be admitted 
to form a part of national wealth. 
12th Fuly. G. 
TOUR OF ENGLAND. 
(Continued from page 430.) 
Journal of a Tour through al moft every county - 
in England, and part of Wales, by Mr.Joun. 
Housman, of Corby, near Carlifle; whe 
was engaged to make the Tour by a gentle- 
man of diftinétien, for the purpofe of col- 
leéting authentic information relative to 
tee ftate of the poor. The Journal com- 
piifes an account of the general appearance - 
of thé country, of the foil, furface, build-~ 
ings, &c. with obfervations agricultural, 
commercial, &c. . 
Se 17. Barnet to Lon- 
ts) don, nine miles. ‘This day’s jeur- 
ney affords me. another proof that the 
metropolis is not encircled with the fineft 
traéts of land: much of the foil has a 
fteril appearance; and here alfo a large 
common is fuffered to difgrace the vi- 
cinitv of the capital. Highgate, and the 
places adjacent, fland on a high ground; 
and from whence, I fuppofe, one of the 
fineft views of London may be had. Much 
of this diftri& is in cow-pafture. 
September 27. From London to Hamp- ° 
ton Court, in Middletex, fourteen miles. 
The road leads through Hammerfmith, 
Kew, and feveral other pleatfant villages ; 
and crofles the Thames. at Kew bridge. ° 
The country level, and very pleafant, 
particularly to thofe who delight in icenes 
where.a great multiplicity of fine houfes 
and gardens are interfperfed. The foil 
Li erie ye 
* Smith on the ‘* Wealte of Natios,.” ~ 
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