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' To Sicily they fend cloths and ferges in great quantities, linens, 

 tapeftries, and innumerable forts of mercery, as well of metals as of 

 niany other kinds ; and they bring back galls in great quantities, ' 

 cummin, oranges, cotton, iilk, and fometimes wines of various forts. 



' To Milan, Antwerp fends pepper, fugar, jewels, mufk, and other 

 perfumes, great quantities of EngliHi and Netherland cloths and 

 ferges, tapeftries, vaft quantities of linens, Englifh and Spanifli wool, 

 and cochineal. The returns are great quantities of gold and (ilver 

 thread ; various wrought lilks, gold fluffs, fuflians, and dimities of 

 many fine forts ; fcarlets, tammies, and other fine and curious dra- 

 peries ; great quantities of rice ; mufkets, and other armoury ; various 

 forts of high-priced mercery ; and a confiderable quantity of Parme- - 

 fan cheefe. 



' To Florence they fend many forts of woollen fluffs, Englifh wool, 

 linens, fans, frifes, even altliough by fea the Florentines and Vene- 

 tians are better provided with Englifh wool on the fpot itfelf. From 

 Florence they bring back many forts of very fine wrought lilks, gold 

 and filver fluffs, and thread, tine fhalloons, then called ralles, and line 

 furs. 



* To Genoa they fend Englifh and Netherland cloths and ferges, ta- 

 peflry, linens, mercery, utenfils, and houfehold furniture ; and they 

 bring back vaft quantities of velvets of various prices (the befl in the 

 world), fattins and other wrought filks, the befi of coral, mithridate, 

 and treacle. By Genoa alio, Antwerp fends to Mantua, Verona, Eref- 

 cia, Vicenza. Modena, Lucca, &c. the fame forts of inerchandize, and 

 brings back the like returns as from Genoa. 



' From Italy they alfo bring by fea to the Netherlands the alum of Ci- 

 vita Vecchia, the oils of Apulia, Genoa, and Pifa, various gums, fen- 

 na in the leaf, fulphur, orpiment, &c. ; and by fea alfo Italy receives 

 from the Netherlands tin, lead, madder, Brafil wood, wax, leather, 

 flax, tallow, fait fifli, timber, and fometimes corn and pulfe.' Our 

 author adds, ' that Antwerp's imports from Italy of lilks, gold and fil- 

 ver thread, camblets, grograms, and other fluffs (exclufive of other 

 wares), amounted to three millions of crowns yearly,' (each crown 

 being equal to two Dutch guilders) or about L6oo,ooo Sterling. 



' Antwerp fends to Germany pretious flones and pearls, fpices, 

 ' drugs, faffron, fugars, Englifh cloths, as a rare and curious thing, 

 ' and of high price; alfo a good deal of Netherland cloths* and ferges, 

 ' tapeflry, an infinite quantity of linen, and mercery of all forts ; and 

 * Antwerp receives from Germany, by land- carriage, filver in bullion, 

 ' quickfilver, immenfe quantities of copper, fine wool of Hefle, glafs, 

 ' fuflians of an high price (to the value of above 600,000 crowns year- 



* Hence it appears that the cloths of England weK efteemed fiiperior to thofe of the Netherlands. 



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