Identifier: historicalchrono01ande (find matches)
Title: An historical and chronological deduction of the origin of commerce : from the earliest accounts to the present time. Containing, an history of the great commercial interests of the British empire. To which is prefixed, an introduction, exhibiting a view of the ancient and modern state of Europe; of the importance of our colonies, and of the commerce, shipping, manufactures, fisheries, etc. of Great Britain and Ireland; and their influence on the landed interest. With an appendix, containing the modern politico-commercial geography of the several countries of Europe
Year: 1764 (1760s)
Authors: Anderson, Adam, 1692?-1765 Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. BRL Boston Public Library) John Adams Library BRL
Subjects: Commerce
Publisher: London : Printed for A. Millar, J. and R. Tonson ...
Contributing Library: John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library
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INTRODUCTION. x\xi In Europe northward, the Ancients knew nothing beyond the 63d Degree of Latitude, and even fo How much of Eu-far Very obfcurely; farther than which Degree of Latitude even Ptolemy of Alexandria, the lateft and r°f ™^f. kn°wn °beft of the ancient Geographers, has not let down the Names of any Country or Sea. Neither was theDifcovery ib far North laid to have been made until the Reign of the Emperor Auguftus, when a RomanFleer failed a o-ood Way beyond the Entrance into the Baltic Sea, along the Coaft of Norway, as far asthe Haven of Bergen, mentioned by Pliny under the Name of Bergos, but folely for mere Difcovery,they having never had any Commerce, nor fcarcely any Correfpondence on that Coaft. Strabo, (an ableHiftorian and Geographer, who flourifhed at that Time) relates, That the Ships which traded from thePorts of Gaul never ventured farther North than Ireland, as believing all Places more northerly to be un-inhabitable, by reafon of intenfe Cold ! Until the

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