Superabundance To Scarcity

Source [Page 342]

The information was taken from the History of the late war, between the United States and Great Britain:...: 

 From the want of that system regularity and strictness which belong to old establishments there existed at one moment a superabundance of all the necessary munitions and at another as great a scarcity. There was no end to the irregular and unforeseen expenses which the government was constantly called upon to incur.