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In multiplying another very important sort of rude produce, the

quantity of fish that is brought to market, it is likewise both

limited and uncertain. It is limited by the local situation of

the country, by the proximity or distance of its different

provinces from the sea, by the number of its lakes and rivers,

and by what may be called the fertility or barrenness of those

seas, lakes, and rivers, as to this sort of rude produce. As

population increases, as the annual produce of the land and

labour of the country grows greater and greater, there come to be

more buyers of fish; and those buyers, too, have a greater

quantity and variety of other goods, or, what is the same thing,

the price of a greater quantity and variety of other goods, to

buy with. But it will generally be impossible to supply the great

and extended market, without employing a quantity of labour

greater than in proportion to what had been requisite for

supplying the narrow and confined one.