8 Decr 1801

Maximum

8. Local Variation

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8. “If it were worth pursuing the point further, it might be shewn, that the

difficulties in the execution of it would be insurmountable. The same maximum

could not apply universally throughout the kingdom, nor could it be set

correctly in every different place, according to all the variety of

circumstances which operate upon price.”

Observations

If what the Hon.ble Gentleman appears so confident of being able /having it in

his power/ to shew and forebore to shew only because in his view of the matter

it was not worth shewing had been shewn, this one argument might have stood in

the place of all the rest. The same maximum not apply universally throughout the

kingdom? - why not? what should hinder it? Had he said that different maximums

could not on the extraordinary occasion in question be applied to all the

different places of the kingdom as /that are wont to/ exhibit in ordinary years

so many differences in regard to price, and that in such manner as to make the

extraordinary fixed price be in the same proportion in each place /every where/

to the ordinary natural one: had this been the atchievement rejected /attempt

/measure/ reprobated/ on the score of impracticability, I should have found no

difficulty in acceding to the rejection: That