Source Book of London History, from the earliest times to 1800
History
Source Book of London History, from the earliest times to 1800
London (England) -- History
To Spain we send all kinds of woollen goods, leather, lead, tin,
fish, corn, iron and brass manufactures, haberdashery wares,
assortments of linen from Germany and elsewhere for her American
colonies; and receive in return wines, oils, dried fruits, oranges,
lemons, olives, wools, indigo, cochineal, and other dyeing drugs,
colours, gold and silver coins, etc.
To Portugal we mostly send the same kind of merchandise as to Spain;
and make returns in vast quantities of wines, oils, salt, dried and
moist fruits, dyer's ingredients, and gold coins.
To France we export tobacco, lead, tin, flannels, horns, hardware,
Manchester goods, etc., and sometimes great quantities of corn; and
make our returns in wines, brandies, linens, cambrics, lace,
velvets, brocades, etc. But as a commercial treaty has so lately
taken place with France, added to the attention of its people being
drawn off from trade, and almost wholly engrossed with the
establishment of its late wonderful revolution, it is impossible to
state the relative operations of this trade at present.
To Flanders we send serges, flannels, tin, lead, sugars, and
tobacco; and make returns in fine lace, linen, cambrics, etc.
To Germany we send cloth and stuffs, tin, pewter, sugars, tobacco,
and East India merchandise; and bring from thence linen, thread,
goatskins, tinned plates, timbers for all uses, wines, and many
other articles.
To Norway we send tobacco and wollen stuffs; and bring from thence
vast quantities of deals and other timber.
To Sweden we send most of our home manufactures; and return with
iron, timber, tar, copper, etc.
To Russia we send great quantities of woollen cloths and stuffs,
tin, lead, tobacco, diamonds, household furniture, etc.; and make
returns in hemp, flax, linen, thread, furs, potash, iron, wax,
tallow, etc.
To Holland we send an immense quantity of different sorts of
merchandise, such as all kinds of woollen goods, hides, corn, coals,
East India and Turkey articles imported by those respective
companies, tobacco, tar, sugar, rice, ginger, and other American
productions; and return with fine linen, lace, cambrics, thread,
tapes, madder, boards, drugs, whalebone, train-oil, toys, and
various other articles of that country.
To America we still send our home manufactures of almost every kind;
and make our returns in tobacco, sugars, rice, ginger, indigo,
drugs, logwood, timber, etc.
To the coast of Guinea we send various sorts of coarse woollen and
linen goods, iron, pewter, brass, and hardware manufactures,
lead-shot, swords, knives, firearms, gunpowder, glass manufactures,
etc.; and bring home vast numbers of negro slaves, and gold dust,
dyeing and medicinal drugs, redwood, Guinea grains, ivory, etc.
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