. 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. iaS A. D. banks of the navigable rivers. The chief of thefe were Corduba (Cor^ dova), Malaca (Malaga), lUpa (Penajlor), Hifpalis (Seville), with many others, w
. 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. iaS A. D. banks of the navigable rivers. The chief of thefe were Corduba (Cor^ dova), Malaca (Malaga), lUpa (Penajlor), Hifpalis (Seville), with many others, which after being colonized by the Romans, who thereupon fre- quently aflumed the credit of being their founders, retain to this day fome Ihare of fplendour, and even, when compared with fome parts of modern Spam, a portion of the induftry, derived from their Phoenician founders through the revolutions of thirty centuries. But the chief of the whole tor commercial dignity, as already obferved, was Gadir (call- ed by the Romans Gades, and at this day Cadiz), which was now be- come the greateft emporium in the weftern world, the rival of Alexan- dria in commerce, and by fome fuppofed inferior only to Rome in the number ot its inhabitants, many of whom, not able to find houfe-room on the fmall ifland whereon the town was built, lived entirely upon the water. The Turtuli exported great quantities of corn, and wine ; ex- cellent oil, but in fmall quantity ; honey, and wax; pitch ; much fear- let dye {KOKitot), and vermilion (|Ct/Xrof), which the Romans obliged them to bring m a rude ftate, to be refined at Rome; fait; faked provifions of a fuperior quality ; wool of fo excellent a kind, that a talent (^193 : 15/lterling) was an ufual price for a good breeding ram. They had formerly exported confiderable quantities of woollen drapery ; but they were now apparently obliged to give up that manufadure, and to carry their raw wool to the Romans, who probably put the manufacture into the
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