This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843. Excerpt: ... not to be struck with the long periods during which the averages range between 64. and 69.; and the rests in the new scale bespeak an opinion in its framer"s mind that a duty of from 6s. to 8. can be levied upon the greatest portion of foreign wheat imported; and, notwithstanding the transactions of the last year seem to countenance such an opinion, there is no difficulty in showing its fallacy. The experience of the last thirty years has shown, that in this country the average price of wheat can never reach 64., except from an anticipated or actual failure of the wheat crop; and so certainly has the price, after attaining 64., risen to 70. and upwards, that the speculators in foreign wheat may in general safely hold on until the lower duties of 3., 2., and 1. only are...