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Even though that demand, therefore, should continue always the

same, their market price will be liable to great fluctuations,

will sometimes fall a good deal below, and sometimes rise a good

deal above, their natural price. In the other species of

industry, the produce of equal quantities of labour being always

the same, or very nearly the same, it can be more exactly suited

to the effectual demand. While that demand continues the same,

therefore, the market price of the commodities is likely to do so

too, and to be either altogether, or as nearly as can be judged

of, the same with the natural price. That the price of linen and

woollen cloth is liable neither to such frequent, nor to such

great variations, as the price of corn, every man's experience

will inform him.