 | Francis Collins - Mediterranean Region - 1809 - 354 pages
...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... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1810 - 410 pages
...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... | |
 | English literature - 1812 - 708 pages
...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... | |
 | Classical philology - 1813 - 514 pages
...praesenti sufficiant : mox plura nee vulgaria proferemus. NOTICE OF MOOR's 'HINDU P4KTHEÜN: AFTER the discovery of a passage to India, by the Cape of Good Hope, had facilitated the researches of European curiosity among the fairest regions of Asia, it would... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 862 pages
...bdii. Good Hope, however, was the most effectual and — - v— * speedy in humbling the Venetians. After a tedious course of voyages along the western coast of Africa, continued for near half a century, N asco de Gama, an active and enterprising Portuguese officer, doubled... | |
 | Robert Kerr - Explorers - 1824 - 674 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Kerr - Voyages and travels - 1824 - 686 pages
...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... | |
 | William Stevenson, Robert Kerr - Commerce - 1824 - 706 pages
...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... | |
 | Periodicals - 1825 - 500 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Smithers - Cotton trade - 1825 - 534 pages
...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... | |
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