The merchants map of commerce wherein the universal manner and matter relating to trade and merchandize are fully treated of, the standard and current coins of most princes and republicks observ'd, the real and imaginary coins of accounts and exchanges express'd, the natural products and artificial commodities and manufactures for transportation declar'd, the weights and measures of all eminent cities and towns of traffick in the universe, collected one into another, and all reduc'd to the meridian of commerce practis'd in the famous city of London / by Lewis Roberts, merchant.
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The merchants map of commerce wherein the universal manner and matter relating to trade and merchandize are fully treated of, the standard and current coins of most princes and republicks observ'd, the real and imaginary coins of accounts and exchanges express'd, the natural products and artificial commodities and manufactures for transportation declar'd, the weights and measures of all eminent cities and towns of traffick in the universe, collected one into another, and all reduc'd to the meridian of commerce practis'd in the famous city of London / by Lewis Roberts, merchant.
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Roberts, Lewes, 1596-1640.
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London :: Printed for Thomas Horne ...,
1700.
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Weights and measures -- Early works to 1800.
Coinage -- Early works to 1800.
Exchange -- Early works to 1800.
Balance of trade -- Early works to 1800.
Great Britain -- Commerce.
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"The merchants map of commerce wherein the universal manner and matter relating to trade and merchandize are fully treated of, the standard and current coins of most princes and republicks observ'd, the real and imaginary coins of accounts and exchanges express'd, the natural products and artificial commodities and manufactures for transportation declar'd, the weights and measures of all eminent cities and towns of traffick in the universe, collected one into another, and all reduc'd to the meridian of commerce practis'd in the famous city of London / by Lewis Roberts, merchant." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A57390.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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CHAP. LXXXVI. Of Zagathai and Cathai, and the Provinces thereof.
* 1.1ZAgathai contains sundry Provinces, and but few Cities;
* 1.2the most famous is Sarmacand, which gave both Cradle and Grave to
mighty Tamberlain, from whom the Great Moguls boast themselves to be lineally descended,
* 1.3But Cathai is esteemed the richest and civilest Kingdom of all Tartary, the which is fur∣nished with sundry great and populous Cities,
* 1.4especially
Cambalu, the residence of the Great Cham, and where
Merchants of all Nations are found to reside and Traffick to; as I shall shew hereafter.
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* 1.5This Country is found to abound with Rice, Grain, Wooll, Hemp, Rhuharb, Coral, and abun∣dance of Silks, both growing and brought hither from China and other Countreys, amount∣ing to two thousand Carts yearly; the City is held to be 30 miles about in compass, and is re∣plenished with all Artsmen (Astrologers being here in great reputation) which may (conside∣ring their number found here, being, as some write, 5000) be more properly termed Fortune∣tellers, or
Gypsies; but these Countreys resemble in customs the
Muscovite and Chinois, none be∣ing permitted to search into their Cities and manners, except they come either as
Ambassadors or Merchants; yet what I have gathered of the
Trade of this Country, I will include under the title of
Cambalu, the principal City of this Empire.