INDEX.

Tea-tree, first mention of, by Arabian travellers, 102.

Tides of the Indian ocean, peculiarities in, 199.

Trade, how at first conducted between different countries,between Egypt and India, ;8. exports and importsof India, ?4.

Transmigration of fouls, the Eastern doctrine of, explained,

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Turks , their scruples against the wearing of silk, 21 6.

Tyre , the best account of the commercial transactions ofthat city, to be found in the prophet Ezekiel, J 94 -

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Venice, first rife of, as a commercial state, 107. Constan-tinople taken, in conjunction with the crusaders, 117.Venetians engage largely in the trade and manufactureof silk, 11Z. the Eatin empire in the East subverted ,I2o. the Venetians supplanted in the trade with Constan-tinople by the Genoese, 122. they settle a trade withAlexandria, 12;. account of the Venetian trade withIndia in the fourteenth century, 126. travels of MarcoPolo, i?o. their trade extended by the Turks subduingthe Greek empire, 1remarks on their trade forIndian goods, 1J4. evidences of the great wealth theyacquired by this trade, it8. alarm taken at the directvoyage to East India, by Vafco de Gama, 146. measuresprosecuted by the Venetians to check the progress of thePortugueze in the East, 151. the Portugueze supplantthem in the European market, by reducing the pricesof India goods, 169. of the great extent of their trade,259. the bank of Venice the first formed of any inEurope, 240. amount of the Venetian naval strengthin the fifteenth century, 24t.

Wug Beg, his astronomical tables, 78.

Virgil, a good* natural historian, as well as a descriptivepoet, 21

Volney, M., his account of the camel, 242. and of thecaravan from Damascus to Mecca, 244.