The Dictionary of Trade, Commerce and Navigation

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 edition. Excerpt: ...exportation; also great abundance of garden vegetables, fruit, seeds, &c. The mineral kingdom produces gold, silver, quicksilver, tin, lead, copper, and other metals, various gems, and almost all useful minerals of a stony character, as slate, clay, lime, &c. The principal objects of German manufacture are linen, woollens, silk, leather, and cotton goods, lace, paper hangings, paper, glass, mirrors, porcelain, delph ware, gold, silver, iron and steel wares, guns, and sword blades, musical and other instruments, watches, and lackered ware, woodeit clocks, vitriol, alum, sugar, tobacco, beer, brandy, and cordials. Commerce is carried on by land, and sea, but is much discouraged by the many custom-house barriers between the different states. The exports are wood, grain, wine, linen, thread, iron and steel wares, toys, porcelain, looking glasses, cattle particularly draught horses, fruits, wool, sait, minerals, amber, smoked meats, smalt, bees'wax, woollen and cotton goods, lace, &c. The imports are wine, cordials, tobacco, tropical fruits, spices, sugar, coffee, tea, silk, cotton, and fine woollen goods, millinery, and ornaments. The principal commercial ports are Hamburg, Bremen, Embden, Lubeck, Stretton, and Trieste; see these words, also Frankfort, Leiptic, Vienna, .e. At the German fairs business to the amount of more than 5,000,000 is annually transacted. They collect persons from all parts of Europe. Those of Frankfort and Leipsic are the most important. The bulk of foreign manufactures which they bring into Germany is again exported. Ghee. A butter made from the milk of buffaloes. It is in a liquid state, and is carried in bottles called duppers, made of skins, and holding from 20 to 40 lbs. weight. Ghee is an article...