. Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of . the centre of the Indian commerce ;but, long ago declining, its deilruftion has been com-pleted, in our days, from that dreadful defolationwliich Thamas Kouli Khan fpread through Perfia andthe Indies. In Europe, many of the large citiesin Germany, which for a time made a great figurefrom the freedom and induflry of the inhabitants, anddifFufed cafe, plenty, and profpcrity through the di
. Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of . the centre of the Indian commerce ;but, long ago declining, its deilruftion has been com-pleted, in our days, from that dreadful defolationwliich Thamas Kouli Khan fpread through Perfia andthe Indies. In Europe, many of the large citiesin Germany, which for a time made a great figurefrom the freedom and induflry of the inhabitants, anddifFufed cafe, plenty, and profpcrity through the di-ftrifts dependent on them, which of courie renderedthem populous, arc now fo much funk, through inevi-table accidents, as to be but fliadows rf what theywere ; and though they flill continue to fubfilt, fubfiftonly as the melancholy monuments of their own mif-fortuncs. We may therefore, from hence, with greatcertainty, difcern, that all the pains and labour thatcan be beflowed in fupplying the defeft of fituationin this rcfpeft, proves, upon the whole, but a tedious,difficult, and precarious expedient. But, however,we mull 3i the fame time admit, that it is not barely tbe 00.\J,-NilXj:!A Jt-i-i- C O A [ 105 ] COB Cape- tlic podetrton even of an exteiicied coaft tliat can pro-Coaft Jacc all thele deiirable cifcds. That coaft muft like-! wile be dillinguiflied by other natural advantages; Crofting. j-^|(,[j ^^ capes and promontories, favourably difpofcdto break the fury of the winds; deep bays, iafc roads,and convenient harbours. For, without thefe, an ex-pended coaft is no more than a maritime barrier againftthe maritime force of other nations ; as is the cafe inmany parts of Europe : and is one of the principalreafons why Africa derives fo little benefit from a litu-atiun which has fo promifing an appearance ; there?being many conlidcrable tracts upon its coafts, equallyvoid of havens and inhabitants, and which afford notthe fmalleft encouragement to the attempting any
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