Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A History of Gold as a Commodity and as a Measure of Value: Its Fluctuations Both in Ancient and Modern Times, With an Estimate of the Probable Supplies From California and Australia
The recent discovery of gold In two distinct quarters of the globe, and in more than ordinary abundance in each, is just such an incident as we allude to, and is having precisely the effect as might be predicated of it.
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