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These the merchants pay away to the manufacturers for goods, the

manufacturers to the farmers for materials and provisions, the

farmers to their landlords for rent; the landlords repay them to

the merchants for the conveniencies and luxuries with which they

supply them, and the merchants again return them to the banks, in

order to balance their cash accounts, or to replace what they may

have borrowed of them; and thus almost the whole money business

of the country is transacted by means of them. Hence the great

trade of those companies.