The government monopolies of opium and salt were then for the first time placed upon a remunerative basis.
The bone-bed of Axmouth in Devonshire and Westbury and Aust in Gloucestershire, in the Penarth or Rhaetic series of strata, contains the scales, teeth and bones of saurians and fishes, together with abundance of coprolites; but neither there nor at Lyme Regis is there a sufficient quantity of phosphatic material to render the working of it for agricultural purposes remunerative.
The former industry was abandoned as other crops became more remunerative.
There can be no doubt that this expenditure is remunerative, since many rich regions of Asia Minor have long suffered from want of population.
The conclusion supported by most evidence seems to be that he practised on his friends and dependants, but not as a remunerative profession.