AŃ INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS. BY ADAM SMITH, L L. D. AND F. R. S. OF LONDON AND EDINGBURGH: TO THE THIRD EDITION. THE first Edition of the following Work was printed in the end of the year 1775, and in the beginning of the year 1776. Through the greater part of the Book, therefore, whenever the present ftate of things is mentioned, it is to be understood of the ftate they were in, either about that time or at fome earlier period, during the time I was employed in writing the Book. To the third Edition, however, I have made feveral additions, particularly to the chapter upon Drawbacks, and to that upon Bounties; likewife a new chapter entitled, The Conclufion the Mercantile System; and a new article to the chapter upon the expenfes of the fovereign. In all these additions, the prefent fate of things means always the state in which they were during the year 1783 and the beginning of the year 1784. |