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carried off from that country ; alfo hemp, wax, and pitch ; and it ftill kept 

 up its credit for the manufacture of fine linens of the Egyptian fabric, 

 fuch as were adduced by Herodotus as an argument for the truth of 

 an Egyptian colony having fettled there. Goods, brought over-land 

 from India, were fliipped at Phafis for the ports of Europe. 



The article chiefly noted as imported from Galatia and Cappa- 

 DociA *, was vermilion, called Sinopis, from the port at which it was 

 {hipped. 



Of the cheefe, brought to Rome from any confiderable diftance, the 

 befl was from Bithynia. 



Phrygia farnifhed large columns and flabs of a beautiful flone like 

 alabafter, dug in the quarries of Synnada, an inland town, about two 

 hundred miles from the Euxine, and as many from the Mediterranean. 

 The country about Laodicea produced excellent wool, fome of which was 

 naturally as black as jet. 



Clazomenc in Ionia furniflied the befl of all the foreign wines which 

 were carried to Rome. 



Miletus in Caria poflelled a breed of Iheep, the wool of which was 

 very generally preferred to all others. There was alfo a confiderable 

 manufafture of woollen goods, of which thofe dyed with Tyrian purple 

 ■were highly efteemed. 



The moft remarkable produ6lions of Cyprus were pretious ftones, 

 among which there was an inferior kind of diamonds. Copper was im- 

 ported from this ifland in confiderable quantities ; and alfo the befl 

 refin, and a fweet oil, made from a fhrub called by the name of the 

 ifland. 



Syria, Phoenicia, and Palestine, furniflied cedar, gums,balfam, and 

 alabafter. Sidon and Tyre, names fo illuftrious in the earlieft hiftory 

 of commerce, were now chiefly noted for the glafs manufaftures and 

 embroidery of the former, and for the purple dye and fifhery of the 

 later f . The goods, brought from India, over-land, by the merchants 

 of Palmyra, were fliipped for Rome from the ports of Syria : and fome 

 were probably ftill brought from Arabia by the way of the Red fea by 

 fome few merchants remaining in Tyre. 



Egypt was called by the antients the granary of the world ; and it 

 fupplied Rome with corn fufficient, if we can credit Jofephus, for one 

 third of its whole confumption. Its other exports were flax ; linens of 

 all qualities, for which it was famous from the earlieft ages ; cotton 



* In order to fave trouble to the critics, if any f In nautical knowlege the Phoenicians were 



of them (hall condefccnd to examine the body of ftill acknowleged fuperior to all the fcamen of the 



this work, I acknowlege, that I do not pvofefs to Mediterranean, after the extermination of the 



be minutely accurate in the chronology of the Carthaginians. It was to them that the great Mi- 



provinciation of each countiy, and that feveral de- thridatcs applied for feamen proper to command 



pendent nominal kingdoms, e. g. Cappadocia, and navigate the fleet he fitted ctit againll tke 



Judca, Mauritania, &c. are here confidcred as Remans, 

 parts of the empire. 4 



