| Thomas Smith - 1803 - 322 страници
...the demand for Indian productions. But the most effectual m'eans of humbling the pride of Venice, was the discovery of a passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope. After a tedious course of voyages along the western coast of Africa, which had been continued... | |
| Francis Collins - 1809 - 354 страници
...to the general beauty of the view, and altogether constitutes Genoa an interesting prospect. Before the discovery of a passage to India, by the Cape of Good Hope, Genoa had arisen to the zenith of its prosperity as a commercial nation. Its commerce and colonies... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1810 - 410 страници
...observation on some smooth, surface that is washed by the Nile and perpendicular to iis plane. Previous to the discovery of a passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, the commerce of Cairo was very extensive; but since that period it has gradually declined, and... | |
| 1812 - 708 страници
...and to furnish specimens of the manner in which the author has executed his undertaking. The waj for the discovery of a passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope was prepared by Henry, a younger son of Pedro, king of Portugal, by Philippa, the daughter of... | |
| William Stevenson, Robert Kerr - 1824 - 706 страници
...Sweden. We must now turn to the progress of commerce during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The discovery of a passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, gave immediately a great impulse to commerce; whereas, it was a long time after the discovery... | |
| Robert Kerr - 1824 - 686 страници
...Sweden. We must now turn to the progress of commerce during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The discovery of a passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, gave immediately a great impulse to commerce; whereas, it was a long time after the discovery... | |
| Robert Kerr - 1824 - 674 страници
...Sweden. We must now turn to the progress of commerce during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The discovery of a passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, gave immediately a great impulse to commerce; whereas, it was a long time after the discovery... | |
| Henry Smithers - 1825 - 534 страници
...The largest annual import of cotton into Great Britain ever known, 668,400 bags. EAST INDIA TRADE. The discovery of a passage to India, by the Cape of Good Hope, in 1497, opened new sources of commercial enterprise. The British East India Company obtained... | |
| 1825 - 500 страници
...reasons similar to those which gave rise to that of Amsterdam, dealt largely in exchange; and before the discovery of a passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and the consequent downfall of the commerce of Venice and Genoa, notes having the signature of... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 809 страници
...city, and respectable also for men of science and learning. But the conquest of Egypt by the Turks, and S Q 0!]=t : C Ɍ 6 l [ȶ 䄄- R dv Hope, diverted this flourishing trade, and all the intercourse of Europe with the east into a different... | |
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