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tax, the propriety of, considered, with reference to Ireland, iii. 325.

Accounts of money, in modem Europe, all kept, and the value of goods computed, in silver, i. 87.

Actors, public, paid for the contempt attending their profession, i. 175–176.

Africa, cause assigned for the barbarous state of the interior parts of that continent, i. 65.

African Company, establishment and constitution of, iii. 107; receive an annual allowance from Parliament for forts and garrisons, 109; the company not under sufficient control, 110; history of the Royal African Company, 113; decline of, 114; rise of the present company, ibid.

Age, the foundation of rank and precedence in rude as well as civilized societies, iii. 70.

Aggregate fund, in the British finances, explained, iii. 354.

Agio of the Bank of Amsterdam explained, ii. 191; of the Bank of Hamburg, 193; the agio at Amsterdam, how kept at a medium rate, 202–203.

Agriculture, the labor of, does not admit of such subdivisions as manufactures, i. 46; this impossibility of separation, prevents agriculture from improving equally with manufactures, 46–47; natural state of, in a new colony, 157; requires more knowledge and experience than most mechanical professions, and yet is carried on without any restrictions, 203; the terms of rent, how adjusted between landlord and tenant, 226; is extended by good roads and navigable canals, 231; under what circumstances pasture land is more valuable than arable, 233–234; gardening not a very gainful employment, 238; vines the most profitable article of culture, 239–240; estimates of profit from projects, very fallacious, 241; cattle and tillage mutually improve each other, 327–328; remarks on that of Scotland, 328, 330; remarks on that of North America, 332; poultry a profitable article in husbandry, 334; hogs, 336; dairy, 337; evidences of land being completely improved, 339; the extension of cultivation, as it raises the price of animal food, reduces that of vegetables, 360.—By whom and how practiced under feudal government, ii. 12; its oper- Rh