256 A. D. 1747. 



The Portuguefe, as already noted, were once lords-paramount of all 

 the trade of Europe to Eaft-India, from whom the Dutch gradually 

 plucked off the bcft feathers of their wings. What they have rtill left 

 is but inconfiderable, compared with what they have loft, or with thofe 

 of England and Holland, though they ftill retain a great found. 



On the north-eaft coaft of Africa, beyond the Cape of Good Hope, 

 they have Qiiiloa, Mombaza, Melinda, Mozambique, Magadoxa, &.c. 

 ports very ufeful in their voyages to and from India, originally fettled 

 by them for that end. They alfo get confiderable quantities of gold and 

 drugs from thence. 



In Cambaya, they ftill retain the ftrong forts of Diu and Daman, 

 often in vain befieged by great armies of the Moguls. 



On the Malabar coaft, Baftliim near the ifland of Salfet, Choul, and 

 Bandara : Goa, on the fame coaft, is the capital of all their Eaft-India 

 fettlements, now inconfiderable for its commerce, and much decayed 

 from its antient fplendour. Alfo the iflands of Elephant, Carranjaa, 

 Anjediva ; alfo Annanor, Cavarda, Mangalor, and Moor's-Fort. 



On the Coromandel coaft, they have St. Thomas, or Meliapour. 



And, laftly, they have ftill Macao, an iftand in the mouth of Canton 

 river in China, but tributary to, and abfolutely at the mercy of, the 

 Chinefe. 



The Danes have long pofleflx;d the port and fort of Tranquebar, on 

 the Coromandel coaft, and the fubordinate one of Danefljurg. 



The Swedes have as yet no eftablifhed factories in India, though they 

 generally fend one or two ftiips yearly thither. Neither have they at 

 prefent any fettlements anywhere out of their own kingdom, but in 

 Germany. 



Spain pofl'efl'es the beft forts of the Philippine iflands, as Manilla, the 

 capital town and port of the large ifland of that name, otherwife called 

 Lucon ; to which port of Manilla the Spaniards, from Acapulco in 

 Mexico, generally fend two great fhips yearly. But Spain can carry on 

 no trade at all diredly from Europe to Eaft-India, being bound by 

 treaty with Portugal, not to fail thither by the Cape of Good Hope, as 

 well as by the general treaty of Weftphalia in the year 1648. 



The Dutch Eaft-India company are the only Europeans who have 

 any trade to the empire of Japan, from their great emporium of Ba- 

 tavia ; but they are not permitted to have any fort or fa61;ory at Japan. 



Neither are any of the European nations, who trade to China, per- 

 mitted to have fadories there. The Englifla company had formerly 

 fettlements on the coafts of Cochin-China and Tonquin, but now they 

 only trade thither occafionally. It is not the defign of our work to re- 

 late all the fquabbles which the fevcral European nations have had with 

 each other in India, or with the feveral nations of the Eaft (that being 



