COMMERCE. 4ojr 
9. Cotton is the chief produce of Cyprus. 
This is the beft and moll valuable of any i n the 
Levant, and much in requeft amongft the French 
and Venetians. Cyprus produced formerly 6000 
Cantars of Cotton, which was fold in the year 
1751, at 170 piafters a Cantar-, at other times it 
commonly fells at 150 piafters a Cantar ; but the 
fcarcity which was for feveral years together 00 
cafioned by great droughts and locufts, and add 
to this the want of people, owing to the tyranny 
of the Turks, have made this and other products 
of Cyprus very dear and fcarce. 
10. Coffee. 
There are yearly brought 36,000 bales of 
Coffee from Mocka to Egypt, each bale felling 
for fixty piafters. A Cantar of Coffee is fold at 
Cairo for eighteen Mahbub, each Mahbub con- 
•fifts of 1 10 Medins. 
11. Incenfe (L’Encens, Incenfo) 
Sells according to its goodnefs, from nine to 
twenty-three piafters, at fixty medins each, per 
Cantar, confifting of norottoli. 
1 2. A Method of giving Wine a fine Flavour. 
Pluck the flowers of the vine, when they are 
juft come forth and in full bloffom, dry them in 
the (hade, but by no means in the fun or a ftrong 
heat ; powder and preferve them. Take what 
quantity you pleafe of this powder, tye it up in 
linen, and hang it in the calk, when the new 
Wine begins to ferment. Nothing is more natu- 
