CURING herrings, an improvement in the mode of, raised Holland above Flanders, 47.

D.

DEAD languages.  See Education.

DECAY.  See Decline.

DECLINE of nations.  Though it cannot be finally prevented, may be considered as if it never were to come on in this Inquiry, 7.—­Are of two sorts, 10.—­Of the Carthaginians attended with less degradation than that of the Romans, 36.—­Mistaken or misrepresented by historians in the instances of Rome and Carthage, 37.—­Cause of it amongst the Romans, 39, 40, 41, &c.—­Cause of in Flanders, 47.—­ General in all nations that had been wealthy at the time of the discovery of the passage to India and of America, 49.—­Of the Turkish government, 69.—­Occasioned by taxation, 167.—­How to be prevented or retarded, 169.—­Interior causes may be counteracted, ib.—­ In general hastened by the conduct of governments, 171.—­Might be otherwise, ib.—­Certain causes of, common to all nations, 173.—­ External causes of operating on a nation, envy, enmity, &c. 176, 177, 178.—­Causes of peculiar to Great Britain, 257, 258, 259, 260.

DENMARK.  Example of comparative power.—­Occasions the Hanseatic League by its piracies, and is afterwards pillaged and nearly ruined by that confederacy, 48.

DEPRECIATION of money counteracts the effect of taxation, 114, 115.—­Takes place where ever wealth is, 164.—­Its effects in dealing with poor nations, 165.

DIPLOMACY.  The circuitous conduct ascribed to ambassadors, partly necessary and not to be blamed, 186.

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DIVISION of land.  See Property.

DIVISION of property.  See Property.

DUTCH.  See Holland.

E.

EAST INDIES.  See India.

EASTERN Empire.  See Constantinople.

EDUCATION of children in all countries grows worse as a nation grows more wealthy, 90.—­Brings on a change of manners, 91.—­ Would be better managed if parents were aided by govetnment, =sic= 94.—­Cannot be properly taken care of without the aid of government, 95.—­In what it consists generally, 96, 97, 98.—­Has been in general wrong understood =sic= by writers on it, 98, 99.—­Female, its importance, ib.—­Has been ill understood and conducted, 100, 101.—­ Its importance, 216.—­Of the higher classes of society is well enough, 217.—­Not so of the lower, ib.—­Apprenticeships, their advantages, 218.—­To become a good member of society, the end of all education, whatever the rank or situation, 219.—­Dr. Smith’s opinion about apprenticeships examined, ib. and 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226.—­ Of females in England badly conducted, 227, 228.

EGYPT, one of the first countries settled, 20.—­Its fertility, &c. 21.—­ Its surplus industry appears to have belonged to the sovereign, 22.—­ Shared in the commerce to India at an early period, 51, 52.—­Became the chief channel for the trade to India after the founding of Alexandria, 54.