But it has cost you ten times as much, and therefore I can still compete with you: this is the sole mystery.

And observe how the advantage on one point leads to disadvantage on the other.

Precisely because your soil is more fruitful it is more dear.

It is not _accidentally_ but _necessarily_ that the equilibrium is established, or at least inclines to establish itself: and can it be denied that perfect freedom in exchanges is of all systems the one which favors this tendency?
I have cited an agricultural example; I might as easily have taken one from any trade.

There are tailors at Barnegat, but that does not prevent tailors from being in New York also, although the latter have to pay a much higher rent, as well as higher price for furniture, workmen, and food.