...the demand for Indian productions. But the most effectual m'eans of humbling the pride of Venice, was the discovery of a passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope. After a tedious course of voyages along the western coast of Africa, which had been continued...

...to the general beauty of the view, and altogether constitutes Genoa an interesting prospect. Before the discovery of a passage to India, by the Cape of Good Hope, Genoa had arisen to the zenith of its prosperity as a commercial nation. Its commerce and colonies...

...observation on some smooth, surface that is washed by the Nile and perpendicular to iis plane. Previous to the discovery of a passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, the commerce of Cairo was very extensive; but since that period it has gradually declined, and...

...and to furnish specimens of the manner in which the author has executed his undertaking. The waj for the discovery of a passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope was prepared by Henry, a younger son of Pedro, king of Portugal, by Philippa, the daughter of...

...Sweden. We must now turn to the progress of commerce during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The discovery of a passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, gave immediately a great impulse to commerce; whereas, it was a long time after the discovery...

...Sweden. We must now turn to the progress of commerce during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The discovery of a passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, gave immediately a great impulse to commerce; whereas, it was a long time after the discovery...

...Sweden. We must now turn to the progress of commerce during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The discovery of a passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, gave immediately a great impulse to commerce; whereas, it was a long time after the discovery...

...The largest annual import of cotton into Great Britain ever known, 668,400 bags. EAST INDIA TRADE. The discovery of a passage to India, by the Cape of Good Hope, in 1497, opened new sources of commercial enterprise. The British East India Company obtained...

...reasons similar to those which gave rise to that of Amsterdam, dealt largely in exchange; and before the discovery of a passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and the consequent downfall of the commerce of Venice and Genoa, notes having the signature of...

...city, and respectable also for men of science and learning. But the conquest of Egypt by the Turks, and S Q 0!]=t : C Ɍ 6 l [ȶ 䄄- R dv Hope, diverted this flourishing trade, and all the intercourse of Europe with the east into a different...