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Though the price of the corn, therefore, may pay the price as

well as the maintenance of the horse, the whole price still

resolves itself, either immediately or ultimately, into the same

three parts of rent, labour, and profit.

In the price of flour or meal, we must add to the price of the

corn, the profits of the miller, and the wages of his servants;

in the price of bread, the profits of the baker, and the wages of

his servants; and in the price of both, the labour of

transporting the corn from the house of the farmer to that of the

miller, and from that of the miller to that of the baker,

together with the profits of those who advance the wages of that

labour.

The price of flax resolves itself into the same three parts as

that of corn. In the price of linen we must add to this price the

wages of the flax-dresser, of the spinner, of the weaver, of the

bleacher, etc. together with the profits of their respective

employers.