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 of, explained, i. 103; multiplication of, at market, by human industry, both limited and uncertain, 349–350; how an increase of demand raises the price of fish, 350.

Fisheries, observations on the tonnage bounties granted to, ii. 244; to the herring fishery, ibid.; the boat fishery ruined by this bounty, 248.

Flanders, the ancient commercial prosperity of, perpetuated by the solid improvements of agriculture, ii. 123.

Flax, the component parts of the price of, explained, i. 103.

Fleetwood, Bishop, remarks on his "Chronicon Preciosum," i., 278, 281.

Flour, the component parts of the price of, explained, i. 102.

Food, will always purchase as much labor as it can maintain on the spot, i. 229; bread and butcher's meat compared, 232–231; is the original source of every other production, 255; the abundance of, constitutes the principal part of the riches of the world, and gives the principal value to many other kinds of riches, 267.

Forestalling and engrossing, the popular fear of, like the suspicions of witchcraft, ii. 268.

Forts, when necessary for the protection of commerce, iii. 98.

France, fluctuations in the legal rate of interest for money there, during the course of the present century, i. 154; remarks on the trade and riches of, 155; the nature of apprenticeships there, 196; the propriety of restraining the planting of vineyards, examined, 240–241; variations in the price of grain there, 275–276; the money price of labor has sunk gradually with the money price of corn, 301–302; foundation of the Mississippi scheme, 441.—Little trade or industry to be found in the Parliament towns of, ii. 15; description of the class of farmers called metayers, 82; laws relating to the tenure of land, 83; Services formerly exacted besides rent, 84; the taille, what, and its operation in checking the cultivation of land, 88; origin of the magistrates and councils of cities, 97; no direct legal encouragement given to agriculture, 120; ill policy of M. Colbert's commercial regulations, 176; French goods heavily taxed in Great Britain, 184; the commercial intercourse between France and England now chiefly carried on by smugglers, 185; the policy of the commercial restraints between France and Great Britain considered, 186; state of the coinage there, 190–191; why the commerce with England has been subjected to discouragements, 216; foundation of the enmity between these countries, 217; remarks concerning the seigniorage on coin, 290; standard of the gold coin there, ibid.; the trade of the French colonies, how regulated, 326; the government of the colonies conducted with moderation, 339; the sugar colonies of, better governed than those of Great Britain, 340; the kingdom of, how taxed, 387; the members of the league fought more in defence of their own importance, than for any other cause, 392.—The present agricultural system of political economy adopted by philosophers there, described, iii. 9; under what direc-