young's TRAVELS IN FRANCE. 639
And they fent to Venice, at the fame time, cloths to the following amount :
Ducats.
Aleflandria, Tortona , and Novara,
at 15 ducats, 6,000
Q0,000
Pavia, at 15 ducats,
3,000
—
45,000
Milan, at 30 ditto,
- - 4,000
—
120,000
Como, at 15 ditto,
- 12,000
—
180,000
Monza, at 15 ditto,
6,000
—
90,000
Brefcia, at 15 ditto,
- - 5,000
—
75,000
- 10,000
—
7 0,000
Cremona, at 40J ditto,
- 40,000
—
170,000
Parma, at 15 ditto,
- - 4,000
—*
60,000
90,000
960,000
Duties and warehoufes,
m •
200,000
Canvas,
-
m ■
100,000
250,000 ducats.
Cotton fpun,
30,000
Wool of Catalonia , 4000 miliari ,
120,000
120,000
Gold and filk fabrics,
250,000
Pepper,. -
300,000
Soap, - - -
250,000
Cinnamon,.
64,000
Ginger,
80,000
Slaves,-
30,000
Sugar,
95,000
Materials for embroidery,
30,000
Dying woods,
120,000
Indigo, &c.
50,000 *
The produce of filk amounts to 9,000,000 livres; nineteen-twentieths of which, atleaft, are exported.
Count Verri, in his Storia di Milano, mentions that the Milanefe, only fixty miles byfifty, feeds 1,130,000 inhabitants ; and exports to the amount of 1,350,000 zecchini f,viz. filk, 1,000,000 ; cheefe and flax, more than 200,000; corn, 150,000. (the zec-chir.i being 9s. 6d. the fum of 1,350,000 equals 641,2001.) But this is changed much;for the export of cheefe alone is calculated now at 9,200,000 livres, which is above306,0001. fterling.
Bergamo .—The woollen manufacture at this place is of great antiquity, and it is yetconfiderable. Its trade in filk is great; they buy from Crema, Monti, Brianza, Ghiarad’Adda, and in general the confines of the Milanefe; this has given their filk trade agreater reputation than it deferves, for their commerce is more extenfive than theirproduct. They have been known to export filk to the amount of near 300,0001. fter-ling a year. Here alfo is a fabric of iron and fteel, of fome confideration in Italy ; butnone of thefe objects are in a ftile to be interefting to thofe who have been at all convert
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• Ciulini, vol. xii. p. 362.