 | Adam Smith - 1922 - 522 ページ
...and sailing between the ports of London and Leith, frequently carries and brings back two hundred ton weight of goods. Six or eight men, therefore, by the...Edinburgh, as fifty broad wheeled waggons, attended by a hundred men, and drawn by four hundred horses.1 Upon two hundred tons of goods, therefore, carried... | |
 | Phyllis Deane - 1979 - 332 ページ
...Smith, exaggerating a little perhaps, declared that 'Six or eight men by the help of water carriage can carry and bring back in the same time the same quantity of goods between London and Edinburgh as 5o broad-wheeled wagons attended by a hundred men and drawn by 4oo horses'.1 London indeed was built... | |
 | Kevin Greene - 1986 - 198 ページ
...to the cost and effort of land transport in his Wealth of Nations: Six or eight men, therefore, by help of watercarriage, can carry and bring back in...quantity of goods between London and Edinburgh, as fifty broad-wheeled wagons, attended by a hundred men, and drawn by four hundred horses. He added the further... | |
 | Andrew Tylecote - 1992 - 354 ページ
...cheaper. As Adam Smith put it later in the century, 'Six or eight men ... by the help of water carriage, can carry and bring back in the same time the same...quantity of goods between London and Edinburgh, as fifty broad-wheeled waggons, attended by a hundred men, and drawn by four hundred horses'.3 As for power,... | |
 | Claudiu A. Secara - 2007 - 45 ページ
...and sailing between the ports of London and Leith, frequently carries and brings back two hundred ton weight of goods. Six or eight men, therefore, by the...quantity of goods between London and Edinburgh, as fifty broad-wheeled wagons, attended by a hundred men, and drawn by four hundred horses." Open sea navigation... | |
 | Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - 2000 - 478 ページ
...margins. Adam Smith observed, for example, that "six or eight men by the help of water carriage can bring back in the same time the same quantity of goods between London and Edinburgh as 50 broad-wheeled wagons attended by a hundred men and drawn by 400 horses."1 The economic mastery of... | |
 | Robert William Dimand - 2004 - 540 ページ
...failing between the ports of London and Leith, frequently carries' and brings back two hundred ton weight of goods. Six or eight men, therefore, by the...of water-carriage, can carry and bring back in the fame time the fame quantity of goods between London and Edinburgh as fifty broad-wheeled waggon's,... | |
 | William L. Garrison, David M. Levinson - 2005 - 471 ページ
...and sailing between the ports of London and Leith, frequently carries and brings back two hundred ton weight of goods. Six or eight men, therefore, by the...quantity of goods between London and Edinburgh, as fifty broad-wheeled waggons, attended by a hundred men, and drawn by four hundred horses. Upon two hundred... | |
 | Guang-Zhen Sun - 2005 - 312 ページ
...and sailing between the ports of London and Leith, frequently carries and brings back two hundred ton weight of goods. Six or eight men, therefore, by the...quantity of goods between London and Edinburgh, as fifty broad-wheeled waggons, attended by a hundred men, and drawn by four hundred horses. Upon two hundred... | |
 | Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 ページ
...rivers, that industry of every kind naturally begins to subdivide and improve itself. Six or eight men, by the help of water-carriage, can carry and bring...quantity of goods between London and Edinburgh as fifty broad-wheeled waggons, attended by a hundred men, and four hundred horses. The nations that, according... | |
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... time, carries and brings back between London and Edinburgh near four ton weight of goods. In about the same time a ship navigated by six or eight men, and sailing between the ports of London and Leith, frequently carries and brings back two hundred... 
