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Ten years of extraordinary scarcity, besides, are not more

wonderful than ten years of extraordinary plenty. The low price

of corn, from 1741 to 1750, both inclusive, may very well be set

in opposition to its high price during these last eight or ten

years. From 1741 to 1750, the average price of the quarter of

nine bushels of the best wheat, at Windsor market, it appears

from the accounts of Eton college, was only £ 1:13:9 ⅘, which is

nearly 6s.3d. below the average price of the sixty-four first

years of the present century. The average price of the quarter of

eight bushels of middle wheat comes out, according to this

account, to have been, during these ten years, only £ 1:6:8.