...trading people, their capital being Petra. The transittrade from India continued to enrich Arabia until the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope; but the invention of steam-navigation has now restored the ancient route for travellers by the...

...latitude. It abounds with whales, walruses, and other animals common to the Arc- . tic ocean. When the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope had more fully laid open the eastern regions of the Old World, adventurers soon became desirous...

...the ancients linen must have been far cheaper than cotton, whereas the improvements in navigation, the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and still more the discovery of America, have now made cotton the cheaper article among us, and...

...used, it being found more convenient to go through the narrow and crowded streets on donkeys. Before the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, Cairo was a most distinguished city, and shared with Alexandria in the advantages of the traffic...

...the foremost trading city in Europe, the importance of Venice and Genoa having declined ever since the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and the discovery of America by Columbus, both which great events had happened during the reign...

...followed successively ; but it was not till the year 1516, when the Portuguese first visited Canton after the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, that we find any regular intercourse established between China and the western nations. The vessels...

...of the Indian trade until the time of the Ptolemies. From the time of the Ptolemies, however, until the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, Europe was chiefly supplied with Indian commodities through Egypt. Under the Ptolemies, the Romans,...

...followed successively ; but it was not till the year 1516, when the Portuguese first visited Canton after the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, that we find any regular intercourse established between China and the western ••• nations....

...the Mahometans — AD 649. IV. The trade to India, from the conquest of Egypt by the Mahometans, to the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope— AD 1498. First. — The trade with India previous to the time of Alexander the Great. Previous...

...Jews. From that period Alexandria, with its population and grandeur, began gradually to decay ; and the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope levelled a death-blow to the commerce of this city. The Jews in consequence evacuated it, so that,...