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CHAP. LXXIV. A View of Leghorn, the Trade, Cu∣stom, Weights, Measures, and Coyns, &c.
LEghorn the Principal Port, and Scale of Trade in the Mediterranean Sea, is Si∣tuated on a large Plain, and accomodated with a good Harbour for the reception of Shipping, so that almost the whole Scale of Trade is removed from the City of Ve∣nice thither; it is now a part of the Floren∣tine Dominion, having some time past been purchased by the Duke of Tuscany for 120000 Ducats of the Genoese, and from him received large Priviledges and Immuni∣ties, being inlarged by a new City Build∣ed to the old, and by Reason of the small Customs taken there; it is of a Nest of Pirates, Murtherers, &c. who formerly In∣habited it, become famous throughout the World; in this Port the great Duke keeps his Gallies, and here are found all the sorts of Commodities Italy yields, the Trade of it being as aforesaid regulated by Florence and Pisa, and to this Port are brought the