| William Robertson - 1812 - 422 pàgines
...it were more numerous and more valuable. He specifies particularly pearls in great abundance and of extraordinary beauty, a variety of silk stuffs, rich...transparent gems, especially diamonds, and pepper in large quantities, and of the best quality 4 * See NOTE XXVI. The justness of the account given by this author... | |
| William Robertson - 1817 - 432 pàgines
...it were more numerous and more valuable. He specifies particularly pearls in great abundance and of extraordinary beauty, a variety of silk stuffs, rich...transparent gems, especially diamonds, and pepper in large quantities, and of the best quality." z See NOTE XXVI. THE justness of-the accounts given "by this... | |
| William Robertson - 1817 - 450 pàgines
...it were more numerous and more valuable. He specifies particularly pearls in great abundance and of extraordinary beauty, a variety of silk stuffs, rich...transparent gems, especially diamonds, and pepper in large quantities, and of the best quality." « See NOTE XXVI. a Peripl. Mar. Erythr. p. 28. » Ibid. 31,... | |
| William Robertson - 1817 - 430 pàgines
...it were more numerous and more valuable. He specifies particularly pearls in great abundance and of extraordinary beauty, a variety of silk stuffs, rich...transparent gems, especially diamonds, and pepper in large quantities, and of the best quality.13 2 See NOTE XXVI. a Peripl. Mar. Erythr. p. 28. b Ibid. 31, 32.... | |
| William Cowherd - 1818 - 728 pàgines
...commodities exported from the Arabian gulf, specifics, particularly,|)faríí in great abundance, and of extraordinary beauty, a variety of silk stuffs, rich...transparent gems, especially diamonds ; and pepper in large quantities, and of the best quality. FORBES' Oriental Memoin, voL i. p. 306. , 2788, • Near Ptolemais,... | |
| Robert Kerr - 1824 - 686 pàgines
...and silver, exchanging with profit against the coin of the country, on account of its greater purity. The province of Canara, called by the author of the...which were procured there on very reasonable terms : the pepper is distinguished, in the list of its imports, as the pepper of Cottonara. Besides this... | |
| William Stevenson - 1824 - 674 pàgines
...principal exports were, pearls in great abundance and extraordinary beauty; a variety of silk stuff's ; rich perfumes ; tortoise-shell; different kinds of...which were procured there on very reasonable terms : the pepper is distinguished, in the list of its imports, as the pepper of Cottouara. Besides this... | |
| William Stevenson, Robert Kerr - 1824 - 706 pàgines
...imports were chiefly specie, topazes, cloth, stibium, coral, glass, briiss, tin, lead, wine, corn, &c. the eastern and richer parts of India. The principal...transparent gems, especially diamonds; and pepper in large quuntites, and of the best quality. The ports to the south of Nelkundah are described in a cursory... | |
| William Robertson - 1825 - 460 pàgines
...it were more numerous and more valuable. He specifies particularly pearls in great abundance and of extraordinary beauty, a variety of silk stuffs, rich...transparent gems, especially diamonds, and pepper in large quantities, and of the best quality a. The justness of the account given by this author of the articles... | |
| William Robertson - 1825 - 466 pàgines
...it were more numerous and more valuable. He specifies particularly pearls in great abundance and of extraordinary beauty, a variety of silk stuffs, rich...transparent gems, especially diamonds, and pepper in large quantities, and of the best quality a. The justness of the account given by this author of the articles... | |
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