Excerpt from Consideration on the State of the Currency The period of three years, which has elapsed since I attempted to explain the causes which had produced the variations of prices in the thirty years terminating in 1822, has been signalized by fluctuations almost as great' as in that' remarkable interval, and by revul sions of commercial credit, still more striking and destructive. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.