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But in their dealings with the country they were all great

gainers; and in these latter dealings consist the whole trade

which supports and enriches every town.

Every town draws its whole subsistence, and all the materials of

its industry, from the country. It pays for these chiefly in two

ways. First, by sending back to the country a part of those

materials wrought up and manufactured; in which case, their price

is augmented by the wages of the workmen, and the profits of

their masters or immediate employers; secondly, by sending to it

a part both of the rude and manufactured produce, either of other

countries, or of distant parts of the same country, imported into

the town; in which case, too, the original price of those goods

is augmented by the wages of the carriers or sailors, and by the

profits of the merchants who employ them. In what is gained upon

the first of those branches of commerce, consists the advantage

which the town makes by its manufactures; in what is gained upon

the second, the advantage of its inland and foreign trade.