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fant with the fabrics of England. If however the manufactures of Bergamo are com-pared with thofe of the Milanefe, they will be found confiderable.^

Brefcia. —This is a very bufy place; the city and the vicinity for fome miles aboundwith many fabrics, particularly of fire-arms, cutlery, and other works of iron. Theyhave many filk and oil-mills, and fome paper fabrics that fucceed well. But their com-merce of all forts has declined fo much, as not to be compared at prelent to what it hasbeen in former times.

Verona. —Here is a woollen fabric that (till maintains fome little ground, though thedeclenfion it has fuffered is very great. I was allured, that twenty thoufand manufac-turers were once found in a fingle ftreet; this I fuppofe may be an exaggeration, but itat lead marks that it was once very great; now there are not one thoufand in the wholecity ; in the time of its profperity they ufed chiefly their own wool, at prefcnt it isimported.

In the Veronefe, they make one million of pounds of filk, of twelve ounces, and ricenearly to as great an amount.

State of Venice.— Verona. — Many years paft the only great import of cambletswas from Saxony , but after the war of 1758, the Englilh ones eftablilhed themfelves,and there is now no comparifon between the quantity of Englilh and French ; of thelatter very few, but the import of the former is confiderable.

Vicenza. —They fell nine pieces of Englilh camblets to one of French . A woollenmanufacture was eftablilhed here three years ago, under the direction of Thomas Mont-fort, an Englilhman. It works up their own wool, and alfo Spanilh. Spinning a poundof fine wool 50 f, and the women earn 15/. a day; weavers 2 livres. Count Vicen-tino has eftablilhed a fabric of earthen ware with a capital of 9000 ducats ; Mr. Wedg-wood’s forms (originally however from Italy ) are imitated throughout. A good plate,plain, 12ewer and bafon 12 livres ; final! tea cup and faucer, quite plain 1 ; tea-

pot 4 livres; vafe, eighteen inches high, with a feftoon and openings for flowers, 60livers. It meets with no great fuccefs, and no encouragement from the government.

Venice. — In the fifteenth century Venice employed three thoufand three hundred andforty-five Ihips, great and fmall, and forty-three thoufand failors *. The chief exportat prefent is filk; the fecond, corn of all forts; the third, raifins, currants, and wine.Glal's is yet a manufacture of fome confequence, though greatly fallen, even of lateyears. Tuyan for beads is, however, yet unrivalled. The glafs of Bohemia underfellsfrom the great cheapnefs of wood, and poffibly from that of provifions, (my informantfpeaks,) not only the glafs of Venice, but that of Carniola alfo. The chief export fromVenice of fabrics, is to the Levant; velvets and filks go there to fome amount. Thetrade of the whole Venetian territory does not employ above two hundred and fiftyfhips of national bottoms.

Ecclesiastical State. — Bologna. —All the filk of the Bolognefe is here made intocrape and gauze; the crapes are, perhaps, the finell in the world, price confiderea.The gauzes alfo are very beautiful : they meafure by the braccio of forty inches ; theyfell at 26 to 36 baiocchi the braccio (.0 bciiocchi equal 6d. Englifh). White handker-chiefs are alfo made for 7 livres each. Crapes and gauzes employ feven or eight thou-fand people.

Tuscany. — Florence . —The woollen manufacture was amongft the greateft refourcesof the Florentines in the time of their republic.

• Eagionamcnte ful Commercio, IVc. della Fofcaria, 8vo. 178 t, p 21.— Marino Sanudo tra gli Scriltori Italic:del Muratori, tom. ii.— Conte CarTi delle Monde, tom. iii. dif. 4, — Mebegan 'fabkau del’Hijt. Moder. tom. ii.epog. 7.

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