. A new and complete dictionary of trade and commerce : containing a distinct explanation of the general principles of commerce; an accurate definition of its terms ... a particular description of the different productions of art and nature, which are the basis and support of commerce ... foreign commerce ... . ortugal with this commodity, and both king-doms in fome woollens for their American trade; on thecontrary, raw filk is carried from Italy to France as wellby fea as land, and all the Italian ftates in return take offfome part of their fleecy treafure wrought into ferges,cloths, druggets
. A new and complete dictionary of trade and commerce : containing a distinct explanation of the general principles of commerce; an accurate definition of its terms ... a particular description of the different productions of art and nature, which are the basis and support of commerce ... foreign commerce ... . ortugal with this commodity, and both king-doms in fome woollens for their American trade; on thecontrary, raw filk is carried from Italy to France as wellby fea as land, and all the Italian ftates in return take offfome part of their fleecy treafure wrought into ferges,cloths, druggets, &c. Of hats, fome are yet exportedto all thefe countries, though in nothing near the quan-tities as was ufual when thole of Caudebec were the ce-lebrated ones in Europe; their linens and lace alfo con-tinue to find a fale as well in moft parts of Italy as theSpanifh and Portuguefe dominions, both in this part ofthe globe and America ; and thefe ftates furnifh the wantsof the French with large parcels of hides from BuenosAyres and Neuva Colonia, as they do with fnuff and rolltobacco ; of the former it is faid, about two thoufand tonfrom Spain, and as much of the latter from Portugal ;they alio take from Spain latge quantities of foap readymade, with oil and fofa or barilla, to manufacture mora 3 at. F R A F R A at horns ; and with this latter they likevvife fupply them-felves for their plate glafs fabricks. With their wine,brandies, and fait, they carry on a prodigious trade to allthe North ; for though many of thofe parts are fuppliedwith thefe commodities at fecond-hand by the Dutch, yetnone totally; for Sweden, Denmark, Ruffia, and theDantzickers, relieve a great part of their wants with theirown (hipping, which they load with iron, fteel, copper,tin, lead, powder, ftock-fifh, falt-fi(h, tallow, wools,boards, mails, hemp, cordage, tar, and other naval {loresfor the French markets ; though indeed in regard of theFrench intereft, it fignifies very little what nations are thee
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