INDEX.

Cleopatra , value of her famous pearl ear-rings, 57.

Colcbos, the ancient pearl fishery there, still carried onby the Dutch , 6;.

Colors, Indian , for dying, account of, 3 36.

Columbus , his views in that voyage by which he discoveredAmerica, 141. his reliance on the authority of MarcoPolo, the Venetian traveller, 238- See Gama.

Commerce, the extension of, abated the hostile sentimentswhich actuated one nation against another, 12S. unfavor-able’opinion of Plato concerning, 213.

Common law, the origin of, traced, 268.

Comorin, Cape, is accurately described by Arrian , 63.

Compass, mariner’s, was unknown by the ancient Chineseand Arabs , 229.

Constantinople , taken and plundered by the crusaders,1 r8- subversion of the Latin empire there, 120. isconquered by the Turks, and made the feat of theirgovernment, 131.

Conveyancing ,. specimen of the ancient Indian style of,;6i.

Coromandel coast, the inhabitants of, always great traders,89 -

Cofmas Indicopleujles , some account of, and of his Christiantopography, 90. his account of the island of Taprobana,

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Cotton manufactures, evidence of their not being commonamong the- Romans , 2x6.

Crusades to the Holy Land, the origin of, traced, andtheir commercial effects, no. the crusaders acquiredthe policy and arts of the people whom they subdued,ir4- .brought different nations acquainted with eachother, 128.

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Damascus, account of the caravan that travels from thenceto Mecca, 244.