Excerpt from A Computation of the Increase of London, and Parts Adjacent; With Some Causes Thereof, and Remarks Thereon: Particularly, With Respect to the Influence Such Increase of the Capital May Have on the Body of the Nation, Its Constitution and Liberties In our Calculation then of the real Value this Ifland, we are only to compute what is tl annual Produce of our Land, the Amount the. Labour of the People, and the Profits gaine by Trade; thefe being all the Funds of \vealt we poitefs. It is true our Mines of Tin, Lea and Pilheries bring us in fom'e Money; but the bear fo (mall a Proportion to the Whole at pr fent, that we may very well lump them in t} Article of Trade or Land Rent. I {hall ther fore proceed to bring our Wealth to a Balance b Way of Debtor and Creditor. 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.