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Some part of the capital of every master artificer or

manufacturer must be fixed in the instruments of his trade. This

part, however, is very small in some, and very great in others, A

master tailor requires no other instruments of trade but a parcel

of needles. Those of the master shoemaker are a little, though

but a very little, more expensive. Those of the weaver rise a

good deal above those of the shoemaker. The far greater part of

the capital of all such master artificers, however, is circulated

either in the wages of their workmen, or in the price of their

materials, and repaid, with a profit, by the price of the work.