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But as that coin will not be allowed to lie idle, it must, in one

shape or another, be sent abroad, in order to find that

profitable employment which it cannot find at home; and this

continual exportation of gold and silver, by enhancing the

difficulty, must necessarily enhance still farther the expense of

the bank, in finding new gold and silver in order to replenish

those coffers, which empty themselves so very rapidly. Such a

company, therefore, must in proportion to this forced increase of

their business, increase the second article of their expense

still more than the first.