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Though paper money should be pretty much confined to the

circulation between dealers and dealers, yet banks and bankers

might still be able to give nearly the same assistance to the

industry and commerce of the country, as they had done when paper

money filled almost the whole circulation. The ready money which

a dealer is obliged to keep by him, for answering occasional

demands, is destined altogether for the circulation between

himself and other dealers of whom he buys goods. He has no

occasion to keep any by him for the circulation between himself

and the consumers, who are his customers, and who bring ready

money to him, instead of taking any from him.