272 ATHENS. 
customs : instead of the medimnus, the chcenix, 
and the ocestes, we found them to contain two 
quintals, one quintal, and the half quintal. The 
Population population of Athens amounts to fifteen thousand, 
of Athens, including women and children. The principal 
exports are honey and oil: of the latter they 
send away about five vessels freighted an- 
nually. Small craft, from different parts of the 
Archipelago, occasionally visit the Piraeus and 
the neighbouring coast, for wood. The shops 
maintain an insignificant traffic in furs and cloth. 
The best blue cloth in Athens was of bad 
German manufacture, selling under the name 
of English. Indeed, in almost all the towns of 
Europe, when any thing is offered for sale of 
better manufacture than usual, it is either 
English, or said to be English 1 , in order to 
enhance its price. 
(l) For the most accurate information respecting the commerce of 
Greece, in all its parts, the Reader is referred to the publication of 
Mons. Beaujour (Tableau du Commerce de la Grece, par Felix Beaujour, 
Ex- Consul en Grece. Paris, 1800.) Upon the suhjcctof "La draperie 
Anglaise" these imitations of English cloth are mentioned as having 
the preference over the original manufacture. " Depuis cette e'poque 
(1731) le cre'dit de la draperie Anglaise a toujours baisse". On a vu 
ur cette place le de"bit des londres diminuer progressivement par la 
concurrence de nos londrins, fails a leur imitation. Les londres sont 
des draps lagers et grossiers, ainsi nomme's, parce que les premiers 
fabriques furent tablies a Londres. L'assortiment <5tait d'abord 
invariablemeut un tiers vert, un tiers bleu, ct un tiers garance. Ou 
demande aujounl'hui des assortimens composes tout de bleu." Tableau 
du C'omm. torn. II. p. 8. 
