Excerpt from Inquiry: Into the Causes and Remedies of the Late and Present Scarcity and High Price of Provisions, in a Letter to the Right Hon. Earl Spencer, K. G 3. The want 'of internal and foreign com merce.-it appears, from the records of the times, that there was no method of equalizing the confumption of different feafons; for, in the fame, year, the'prices of corn, at different times, would vary not a third or a fourth, not three or four times, but eight or' nine times, as will ap pear by infpeeting the tables that have been con {trueted of the annual pricesfif of wheat, from the year 1202, till the year 1764, It appears from the fame tables, that the plenty of one year. 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.