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Though, in the progress of improvement and population, the price

of the whole beast necessarily rises, yet the price of the

carcase is likely to be much more affected by this rise than that

of the wool and the hide. The market for the carcase being in the

rude state of society confined always to the country which

produces it, must necessarily be extended in proportion to the

improvement and population of that country. But the market for

the wool and the hides, even of a barbarous country, often

extending to the whole commercial world, it can very seldom be

enlarged in the same proportion. The state of the whole

commercial world can seldom be much affected by the improvement

of any particular country; and the market for such commodities

may remain the same, or very nearly the same, after such

improvements, as before. It should, however, in the natural

course of things, rather, upon the whole, be somewhat extended in

consequence of them.