The quantity of money, which is readily parted with to obtain a thing is called its price. - Jean-Baptiste Say

At Newfoundland, it is said, that dried cod performs the office of money,

A shop-keeper in good business is quite as well off as a pedlar that travels the country with his wares on his back. Commercial jealousy is, after all, nothing but prejudice: it is a wild fruit, that will drop of itself when it has arrived at maturity.

The most effectual encouragement to population is, the activity of industry, and the consequent multiplication of the national products.