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118 and germs, dyeing materials , drugs , perfumes , spices , and ivory , were, I believe, the principal, although other. articles of les conideration might perhaps be added.

The Indian trade in early ages mutt have been carried on to extreme diadvantage, even in Pliny's time, when the knowledge of the navigation of the Arabian gulph had facilitated the intercoure with India. Pliny ays, that it never drained the Roman empire of les than 403,645 l. annually paid for Indian commodities, which