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That in France the average price of grain was, in the same

manner, much lower in the end of the fifteenth and beginning of

the sixteenth century, than in the two centuries preceding, has

been observed both by Mr Dupre de St Maur, and by the elegant

author of the Essay on the Policy of Grain. Its price, during the

same period, had probably sunk in the same manner through the

greater part of Europe.