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In such countries, though wages may sometimes rise a little in

the neighbourhood of a great town, or wherever else there is an

extraordinary demand for labour, and sink gradually as the

distance from such places increases, till they fall back to the

common rate of the country; yet we never meet with those sudden

and unaccountable differences in the wages of neighbouring places

which we sometimes find in England, where it is often more

difficult for a poor man to pass the artificial boundary of a

parish, than an arm of the sea, or a ridge of high mountains,

natural boundaries which sometimes separate very distinctly

different rates of wages in other countries.