Excerpt from A Serious Fall in the Value of Gold Ascertained, and Its Social Effects Set Forth: With Two Diagrams In the following tract I commence by endeavouring to unfold the fundamental difficulties of the inquiry, afterwards discriminating the various causes of fluctuation in prices, in order that we may the more surely recognise the effect of the permanent cause in question. I then introduce tables formed and reduced in accordance with the principles of the subject so as to exhibit a depreciation of gold if any exists. The large depreciation rendered apparent is confirmed by an extended inquiry as regards the prices of 1860-62. The future depreciation of gold is considered on somewhat d prior/5 Degrees grounds, and the social effects are lastly deduced and commented on. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.