Note 222-1 — Chapter I

Temple, Observations on the U. Provinces, Works, I, 136, 138 seq., 179. Roscher, Geschichte der engl. Volkswirthschaftsl., 129. Thus, for instance, the Richesse de Hollande, I, 305, describes a rich town near Amsterdam in which a man with an income of 120,000 florins a year expended probably only 1,000 florins per annum on himself.