CORN, donations of at Rome, 35.-- State of crops in England, 145.-- Impossibility, if it fell much short, to find ships to bring over the quantity wanted, ib.-- calculations concerning, 146 to 154.
CREDIT necessary to carry on trade extensively, 202, 203.
CRUSADES tended to extend civilization and commerce, 45.
CUSTOMS, the first great branch of public revenue, 106.
CURING herrings, an improvement in the mode of, raised Holland above Flanders, 47.
D.
DEAD languages. See Education.
DECAY. See Decline.
DECLINE of nations. Though it cannot be finally prevented, may be considered as if it never were to come on in this Inquiry, 7.-- Are of two sorts, 10.-- Of the Carthaginians attended with less degradation than that of the Romans, 36.-- Mistaken or misrepresented by historians in the instances of Rome and Carthage, 37.-- Cause of it amongst the Romans, 39, 40, 41, &c.-- Cause of in Flanders, 47.-- General in all nations that had been wealthy at the time of the discovery of the passage to India and of America, 49.-- Of the Turkish government, 69.-- Occasioned by taxation, 167.-- How to be prevented or retarded, 169.-- Interior causes may be counteracted, ib.-- In general hastened by the conduct of governments, 171.-- Might be otherwise, ib.-- Certain causes of, common to all nations, 173.-- External causes of operating on a nation, envy, enmity, &c. 176, 177, 178.-- Causes of peculiar to Great Britain, 257, 258, 259, 260.
DENMARK. Example of comparative power.-- Occasions the Hanseatic League by its piracies, and is afterwards pillaged and nearly ruined by that confederacy, 48.