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Of the Discouragement of Agriculture in the ancient

State of Europe after the Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER III.

Of the Rise and Progress of Cities and Towns, after

the Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER IV.

How the Commerce of the Towns contributed to the

Improvement of the Country

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30

48

Of Restraints upon the Importation from Foreign
Countries of such Goods as can be produced at
Home

CHAPTER III.

70

107

Of the extraordinary Restraints upon the Importation
of Goods of almost all Kinds, from those Countries
with which the Balance is supposed to be disadvan-
tageous

140

PART I. Of the Unreasonableness of those Restraints
even upon the Principles of the Commercial System ibid.
Digression concerning Banks of Deposit, particularly

PART I. Of the Motives for establishing new Colonies 275

PART II. Causes of the Prosperity of new Colonies

PART III. Of the Advantages which Europe has

derived from the Discovery of America, and from

that of a Passage to the East Indies by the Cape of

Good Hope

CHAPTER VIII.

Conclusion of the Mercantile System

CHAPTER IX.

289

331

Of the Agricultural Systems, or of those Systems of

Political Economy, which represent the Produce of

Land as either the sole or the principal Source of the

Revenue and Wealth of every Country

449