BRITAIN, in what its power and wealth consist, 191.-- Its interior situation and exterior, 192, 193, 194, 195.-- Its conquests and colonies, 196 to 200.-- Its great increase, 201.--
[end of page #295] Farthest advanced in manufacture, the consequence of that investigated, 203, 204, 205.-- Comparison between its general trade and that to India, 206 to 211. -- Begins to encourage agriculture, 213.-- Its exports and imports represented in chart 3 described, 213, 214.
BRUGES acted once as a sovereign, 47.-- Became a depot for India goods in the north, as Venice was in the south, 157.
BURKE, Right Honourable Edmund, his opinion relative to exterior causes of decline, 176.
BUTCHERS meat. See Animal Food.
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CAPE of Good Hope. Its passage a new epoch in commercial history, 3.
CAPITAL, the result of past industry, 161.-- Commands trade, but supplies poor countries at the expense of richer ones, 181.-- Tends to leave a country when it becomes too abundant, 161, 162, 163.-- Would leave England if the sinking fund were to operate long in time of peace, 242.
CARTHAGE, of wealthy places alone escaped the conquests of Alexander, 24.-- Mistake relative to its state, 32, 33.-- Its fall ruined the Roman manners, ib.-- Comparison between it and Rome unfair, 36, 37, 38.-- Was never so degraded as Rome, ib.
CASPIAN Sea, goods brought by that route from India, 56.