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The gross revenue of all the inhabitants of a great country

comprehends the whole annual produce of their land and labour;

the neat revenue, what remains free to them, after deducting the

expense of maintaining first, their fixed, and, secondly, their

circulating capital, or what, without encroaching upon their

capital, they can place in their stock reserved for immediate

consumption, or spend upon their subsistence, conveniencies, and

amusements. Their real wealth, too, is in proportion, not to

their gross, but to their neat revenue.