...now seldom met with. Two scales of value, the ' cash price ' and ' goods price ', are established, and the various gradations thereof distinctly marked...four shillings in goods, his keep, ie two meals, and half a pint of rum." 1 Johnston, writing twenty years later, is equally emphatic as to the depressing...

...his contracts. There were, he noted, "two scales of value," the "cash price," and the "goods price," and "the various gradations thereof distinctly marked...all transactions between employers and labourers." Moorsom reported a rate of exchange in favor of cash at a ratio of 3 to 4. Captain W. Moorsom, Letters...