. Annals of commerce, manufactures, fisheries and navigation [microform] : with brief notices of the arts and sciences connected with them, containing the commercial transactions of the British Empire and other countries from the earliest accounts to the meeting of the Union Parliament in January 1801 ... with a large appendix ... with a general chronological index .... Commerce; Fisheries; Navigation; Commerce; Pêches; Navigation. Bcfiyre Chrift ^^ i—..^48. About the fame time Eudorus, the fellow traveler aod fellow 0udent of Plato, improved fcience in Greece by the introdudion of the ce- lef
. Annals of commerce, manufactures, fisheries and navigation [microform] : with brief notices of the arts and sciences connected with them, containing the commercial transactions of the British Empire and other countries from the earliest accounts to the meeting of the Union Parliament in January 1801 ... with a large appendix ... with a general chronological index .... Commerce; Fisheries; Navigation; Commerce; Pêches; Navigation. Bcfiyre Chrift ^^ i—..^48. About the fame time Eudorus, the fellow traveler aod fellow 0udent of Plato, improved fcience in Greece by the introdudion of the ce- leftial fphere, by a reformation of the erroueous calculation of the year, (which however fcems ro have been little attended to) and by his writ^ ings upon agronomy, geometry, and geography. 351—The Sidonians, provoked by the intolerable tyranny of the Perfian governors, confpired with the Egyptians to throw off the yoke. Their defedion drew upon them the innumerable army of Perfia, led on by the great king in perfon, to whom the city was betrayed by the treachery of one of the commanders of their mercenary allies, and, what is more furprifmg, by their own king. The conduft of the Sidon- ians on this occafion was the very revcrfe of the wifdom of the Tyr- ians when befieged by Nebuchadnezar, and the determined refolution of the Phocaeans when they found themfelves unable to refift the army of Cyrus. In order to prevent any perfon from withdrawing from the defence of ihe city, they burnt the whole of their fhips, (an adion fcarcely credible of a maritime and commercial people) by which rafli condud, and their infuperable averfion to Perfan flavery, they were driven to the defperate refolution of fetting fire to their own houfes, and facrificing themfelves, their wivea^ and their children on the great altar of liberty compofed of their whole city. Thus fell the great Si- don, after it had been, during a long fucceffion of ages, the commercial capital of the Eaft : and even its
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