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 is no legal tender in England, 88.

Cori, the largest quadruped on the island of San Domingo, described, ii. 303.

Corn, the raising of, in different countries, not subject to the same degree of rivalship as manufactures, i. 47; is the best standard for reserved rents, 81; the price of, how regulated, 83; the price of, the best standard for comparing the different values of particular commodities at different times and places, 86; the three component parts in the price of, 102; is dearer in Scotland than in England, 134; its value compared with that of butcher's meat, in the different periods of agriculture, 232–237; compared with silver, 271; circumstances in a historical view of the prices of corn, that have misled writers in treating of the value of silver at different periods, 277–280; is always a more accurate measure of value than any other commodity, 284; why dearer in great towns than in the country, 289; why dearer in some rich commercial countries, as Holland and Genoa, ibid.; rose in its nominal price on the discovery of the American mines, 291; and in consequence of the civil war under King Charles I., 292; and in consequence of the bounty on the exportation of, 293; tendency of the bounty examined, 297–298; chronological table of the prices of, 373–380.—The least profitable article of growth in the British West Indian colonies, ii. 82; the restraints formerly laid upon the trade of, unfavorable to the cultivation of land, 90; the free importation of, could little affect the farmers of Great Britain, 167; the policy of the bounty on the exportation of, examined, 229; the reduction in the price of corn, not produced by the bounty, 230; tillage not encouraged by the bounty, 233; the money price of, regulates that of all other home-made commodities, 234; illustration, 236; ill effects of the bounty, 238–239; motives of the country gentlemen in granting the bounty, 240; the natural value of corn not to be altered by altering the money price, 241–242; the four several branches of the corn trade specified, 253; the inland dealer, for his own interest, will not raise the price of corn higher than the scarcity of the season requires, ibid.; corn a commodity the least liable to be monopolized, 254; the inland dealers in corn too numerous and dispersed to form a general combination, 256; dearths never artificial, but when government interferes improperly to prevent them, 257; the freedom of the corn trade, the best security against a famine, 258; old English statute to prohibit the corn trade, 259; consequences of farmers being forced to become corn dealers, 260; the use of corn dealers to the farmers, 264; the prohibitory statute against the corn trade softened, 266; but still under the influence of popular prejudices, 267; the average quantity of corn imported and exported, compared with the consumption and annual produce, 268–269; tendency of a free importation of corn, 270; the home