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. CCXLIV. Of Larta, and the Trade thereof.
* 1.1LArta is a pretty commodious Town for
Traffick, seated on a Gulph, which bears the name of the Town, having two points of Land fortified, that commands the entrance into the said Gulph out of the Mediterranean Sea, and is seated also on this Shore, between the Islands of Corfu and Santa Maura; it is, as the rest of the Cities aforegoing, subject to the
Grand Seignior, and doth afford for Merchandise to be Exported great store of Sheep-skins and Cordovants, Raw-Silk, by us known by the name of Morea Silk, Powder of
Berry for Dyers: Cottons, Wax, Honey, Portagos in great abundance, being the Row of the Mullet in great quantity caught in this Gulph of Larta.
* 1.2The
weight here in use is the Pound, 100 l. whereof doth make the Quintar, and is found to produce in London 88 l. in 89 l.
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The measure of length is the
Pico, agreeing with the Pico before-mentioned, used in
Valona.
And now I come to Lepanto, the next Town of consequence.