quarter of nine bushels of the best or highest priced wheat at Windsor market, on Lady Day and Michaelmas When the stock which a man possesses is no more than sufficient to maintain him for a few days or a few weeks, he seldom thinks of deriving any revenue from it. But when he possesses stock sufficient to maintain him for months or years, he naturally endeavours to derive a revenue from the greater part of it. That part which he expects is to afford him this revenue is called his capital. The other is that which supplies his immediate consumption. There are two ways in which a capital may be employed so as to yield a revenue or profit to its employer. First, it maybe employed in raising, manufacturing, or purchasing goods, and selling them again with a profit. His capital is continually going from him in one shape, and returning to him in another; such capitals, therefore, may very properly be called circulating capitals. Secondly, it may be employed in the improvement of land, in the purchase of useful machines and instruments of trade, or in such like things as yield a revenue or profit without changing masters, or circulating any further. Such capitals, therefore, may very properly be called fixed capitals. The general stock of any country or society is the same with that of all its inhabitants or members; and, therefore, naturally divides itself into three portions. The first is that portion which is reserved for