Transcriber’s Note

The Index covers both Volumes of this work. Volume I is also available from Project Gutenberg. Links to Volume II are not underlined. The external links to Volume I are underlined, and will open the HTML file at Project Gutenberg.

The last numbered page is p. 646. It is followed by a large table, and the index, which are not paginated. These have been assigned page numbers, continuing from ‘646’ for ease of reference here. The Index was printed in two columns, but is given here in a single column.

Several long accounting tables employ ‘Carry over’ and ‘Brought over’ lines to bridge page breaks. These are no longer required, and have been removed.

Spelling, generally, is not ‘corrected’, given the age of the text, unless there is a clear preponderance of an alternate more standard spelling. ‘Knowledge’ appears three times as ‘knowlege’, but more than twenty times as ‘knowledge’. Verbs ending with -er (‘enter’, ‘render’) are frequently spelled without the ‘e’ when used in other tenses, as ‘entred’, ‘rendring’, etc.

The word ‘Missisippi’ appears as the modern variant ‘Mississippi’ in the table of contents and index. The two instances (pp. 243, 261) in the text proper have been retained.

Diacritical marks in non-English languages are frequently missing, and have not been added.

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No attempt was made to validate all the references in the Index. Several issues did arise during the preparation of this transcription:

The entry for ‘Remuage’ is corrupt, indicating a note on p ‘50?’. The note now appears as note 46 on p. 550.

The entry for ‘Ustensil’ misspells the word ‘Ustencil’, and transposes the last digits of the correct page number (‘496’) as ‘469’.

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Errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the original. The following issues should be noted.

The changes requested in the Errata table above have also been made, and are marked with an asterisk. The brackets show the specific change made to the line. The editor’s final request

2.8	*	[of/as] affecting	Replaced.
7.1	*	manufacture[r]s	Inserted.
9.32	*	their g[r]ains will purchase	Removed.
15.26		Is not this called par[./?]	Replaced.
66.15		a[n/u] cours du jour	Replaced.
71.26	*	5[5/1].162 : 55.38 :: 100 : 108.2.	Replaced.
73.13	*	801.6[1/8] :: 1 : 14.47	Replaced.
77.13		23 mar[k/c]s 7 ounces 152 grains	Replaced.
77.22		23 mar[k/c]s 7 ounces 152 grains	Replaced.
85.15	*	f. 2[4/5].572 in silver florins	Replaced.
86.9		[i/I] this case	Capitalized.
87.1	*	the weight of the p[ri/ie]ce	Replaced.
93.15	*	1201[.]26 aces fine	Removed.
93.17		263 : 12012[0/6>]	Replaced.
103.23		to shew how eve[ry/n] the most surprizing effect	Replaced.
118.16	*	26th chapter of th[is/e] second book	Replaced.
119.18	*	hen a state [seems/comes] to contract	Replaced.
132.32	*	at a very [in]considerable interest	Added.
143.27	*	[c/e]ase of transfer	Replaced.
149.9	*	depends the pro[per/speri]ty of trade	Replaced.
152.24	*	in security of th[at/eir] good faith	Replaced.
156.4	*	of their advance[-/;]profits[,]	Replaced./Removed.
157.26	*	are quickly thrown[ back] into circulation	Removed.
158.17	*	searching after[ the] principles, not after facts,	Removed.
168.31	*	What are the consequences [of/to] circulation	Replaced.
182.26	*	these bills will be b[r]ought from	Removed.
197.15	*	and pay [no/the same] interest	Replaced.
249.3	*	the [l/E]ast India company	Replaced.
254.13	*	upon the value of 500[0] livres	Removed.
261.15	*	If that was [t]he case	Added.
326.9	*	for articles of [ex/im]portation	Replaced.
333.23	*	he will sell his bills [to/on] the country	Replaced.
344.16	*	in regulating exchange[-property].	Removed.
368.19		far beyond [t]heir due proportion	Restored.
369.21	*	when taxes were [mixed/raised]	Replaced.
394.12	*	perpetual or [in]determinate annuities	Added.
406.10	*	library[ and archives of France]	Added.
411.24	*	during the war 17[62/44]	Replaced.
469.5		the whole [t]he> lender	Restored.
524.24		extrava[va]gance of your neighbour	Removed.
588.5		exportation and importa[ta]tion	Removed.
608.20		their own debt[) / (']and it is so,	Reversed.
613.6		and the fatal catastrop[h]e	Inserted.
627.21		In order to make [t]his change of policy	Added.
646.29		no farther knowle[d]ge	Inserted.
659l.22		Usten[s/c]il	Replaced.