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A. D. 73. 



brought by land carriage over the Bala-gaut mountains *, and alfo the 

 produce of every coafl:, from Africa to the farthefl Eaft, imported by 

 the veffels of the country. And fuch was the difpatch in tranfa6ting 

 bufinefs in this great mart, that a vefTel's cargo could be fold, and a new 

 cargo put onboard in three days ; whereby we learn that the merchants 

 of Barygaza were numerous, and that they had large capitals, and were 

 extenfiive dealers f . 



The imports from Egypt were 



Wine of Italy, Laodicea, and Ara- 

 bia; 



Brafs ; 



Tin ; 



Lead; 



Coral ; 



Chryfolithes ; 



Garments, plain and counterfeit, 

 of all kinds ; 



Safhes made of many threads, per- 

 haps net- work ; 



Storax ; 



Melilot ; 



White glafs ; 



Sandarak ; 



Stimmi, or ftibium, (perhaps black 

 lead) ; 

 The exports were 



Spikenard of various kinds, brought 



from Proclais ; 

 Coftus ; 

 Bdellium ; 

 Ivory ; § 

 Onyx flones from Plithana and 



Ozene (believed to be Ougein) ; 



Ointment of ordinary quality, and 

 in fmall quantity ; 



Money of gold and filver, in ex- 

 changing which wiih the money 

 of the country there was a con- 

 liderable profit ; :j: 



And there were prefented to the 

 king, in name of tribute or cuf- 

 tom, 



Pretious filver veffels ; 



Mufical inflruments ; 



Beautiful virgins for the feragllo ; 



Wine of the firfl quality ; 



Plain dreffes of the fineft fabric ; 



The moft pretious ointments. 



• See Lieutenant Wilford in the Aftat'ic re- 

 fiarcha, K i, p. 370. 



f It is very common for tlie native merchants 

 of India to buy wliolc cargoes by tlic invoice : and 

 that there were many mcrcliants at IJarygaza who 

 did the fame in tliofe days, and alfo had Hocks of 

 ){Oods ready in their warelioufes fulficient to load 

 tlie vcfTcls immediately with the articles wanted, is 

 evident from the difpatch. The author adds, that 

 the fame difpatch was given in Scythia, meaning, 

 1 fiippofe, the Barbaric emporium ; but as the 

 goods were to be fent up the river to the king, it 

 .'5 not clear from what time the three days could 

 Nc reckoned there. 



\ Roman coins, prybably thofc cnrricd from 



Murrhlne flones from Ozenc ; 



Myrh ; 



Lycium ; 



Muflins {livhovii Xv'^iKou) from Ta- 

 gara and Ozene ; 



Calicoes of all iorts (or perhaps fi- 

 gured) ; 



Egypt in tliis trade, .ind alfo Greek coins, are dill 

 met with at Surat, about thirty miles fouth from 

 Baroach, where foine of both kinds were collect- 

 ed by the Dutch navigator Stuvovinus. (See his 

 (Voyages, F. n, p. II, Englijh trjnjl.) The Greek 

 ones were perhaps thofe oi Apollodotus and Men- 

 ander, fovereigns of fome ot the eaiUru part of 

 Alexander's conquells, which were current at Ba- 

 ryga/a in cur author's time. We may obferve, 

 tliat every writer of veracity, who has gone over 

 the fame ground with the author of the Periplus, 

 illuflrales the accuracy of his llatenients. 



§ Pliny repeatedly obfervcs tliat the largeil ivory 

 was got from India. [L. viii, cc. 3, ii.^ 



