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Land, mines, and fisheries, require all both a fixed and

circulating capital to cultivate them; and their produce

replaces, with a profit not only those capitals, but all the

others in the society. Thus the farmer annually replaces to the

manufacturer the provisions which he had consumed, and the

materials which he had wrought up the year before; and the

manufacturer replaces to the farmer the finished work which he

had wasted and worn out in the same time. This is the real

exchange that is annually made between those two orders of

people, though it seldom happens that the rude produce of the

one, and the manufactured produce of the other, are directly

bartered for one another; because it seldom happens that the

farmer sells his corn and his cattle, his flax and his wool, to

the very same person of whom he chuses to purchase the clothes,

furniture, and instruments of trade, which he wants.