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olives. The Morea is susceptible of every chap. 
species of culture ; and the mountainous region ■ " 
of Epirus is of all others the most barren ^ 
The principal commerce of Salonica, for which Commerce 
... r. . . of Salo- 
its situation is so favourable, consists in ex- ii«ca. 
porting the corn, cotton, ivool, tobacco, hees-ivaoc, 
and silk, of all Macedonia^ This wealthy region. 
(3) Ibid. p. 22. 
(4) It also carries on a considerable trade in carpets, and in a coarse 
kind of c/o</t used by the Grand Signior for clothing the Janissaries- 
It is said also to export timber, from the forests at the foot of Mount 
Olympus, ne&T Kafarinn. The Manuscript Journal ot Mr. ffalpole 
contains the following statement on the subject of the Commerce of 
Salonica. 
" Mr. Oiainaud, the English Consul, furnished me with the fol- 
lowing information : 
" The Beys of Salonica, ten in number, are the monopolists of the 
corn. They sell annually such a quantity as brings into circulation 
the sum of 1,500,000 piastres. — 300,000 kiloes of corn are annually 
exported from the plains of the Vardar, from Cassandra, and 
Panomea, near Salonica. Each kilo may be valued, including the 
bribe giren to the Beys to allow the exportation, at five piastres. 
" 30,000 loads of cotton were annually sent from Salonica, by land, 
into Germany. Each load consists of 100 okes. This quantity, 
valued at one piastre and thirty paras the oke, including the duty at 
the custom-house, gives the sum of 5,250,000 piastres. The cotton 
comes from Serres (eighteen hours distant from Salonica) and the 
neighbouring plains. A quantity was exported annually by sea, 
valued at 3,000,000 piastres. 
" The exportation of tobacco made to Alexandria, on the average 
of different years, was 15,000 bales ; the quantity exported to Satalia 
by Albanian and Bosniac supercargoes, who bring money to make 
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