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con lifted only of cloaths and cochineal. Cairo, 
June 19th, 1750. 
4. In Aleppo , which is the prettied: town in the 
Turkifh empire, there are nine French and eight 
Englifh houfes. There are more Englifh here, 
than in any other place in the Levant ; they trade 
to Perfia and India. When Perfia is at peace, they 
can gain 300 per cent, on their broad cloaths. 
For thefe the market is as good in Perfia, as it is 
for the French in Turkey ; becaufe the country is 
colder, and requires a thicker manufacture than 
the thin and wretched French cloths ; it depends 
alfo on the different fentiments of the two nations. 
The Turks admire a brilliant colour and fplen- 
did appearance; the Perfians are a wifer peo- 
ple and know the value of goods. The Englifh, 
difpofe of 8 or 900 bales of cloth every year ac 
Aleppo, and the French the fame quantity.^ They 
get in return Silk, Drugs and Teftic. The filk 
comes from Perfia, and is much valued in Eng- 
land. 
5. The Trade of Damiata. 
They expert large quantities of Flax every year 
to Venice, Leghorn, and fome to Marfeilles. 1 hey 
make linen here, and fell it to great advantage, to 
France and Italy for lining, and where courfe 
linen is required *, but mofl: of it goes to Syria* 
Greece, Conftantinople, and other places in Tur- 
key •, to each of thefe are every year exported io° 
bales, each bale fix feet in length, and four & 
breadth and height, being valued from 3 to £ 0 ° 
piafter. All Egyptian linen is coarfe, and much o 
the fame finenefs with the ten or twelve-penny ■ 
linen, but with this difference, that the EgyP Lia _ s 
