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(n) Tooke's "History of Prices," i., 65. The wages here given are the general mean for the whole year. The summer wages are very near the general mean, as appears by the proportions in Arthur Young's "Six Weeks' Tour," p, 333. The equality is produced by the excess of the summer wages over the winter's being balanced by the excess of the harvest wages over the summer. (o) Tooke, ibid. (p) Ibid. (q) Parliamentary Return. (r) Ibid. (s) Ibid. (t) Summer wages, computed as above, from the accounts drawn up for the Board of Agriculture. (u) Average of all England from Report of Committee on Labourers' Wages in 1824. (v) Average of all the counties of England, from Appendix (B) to the Poor Law Commissioners' Report in 1834. This result has been obtained from a careful examination and analysis of the returns from more than 1200 parishes. But the average seems too high, even allowing for the temporary rise caused by the riots of 1830 and 1831.