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Rh which were again fold for an hundred times the original cot; and in another place he tells us, that India, Seres, and the peninula of India, took from the Roman empire no les annually than double that um.

As a large proportion of the vat increae of price of thee goods, when fold again in Europe, mut have arien from the ncce{{ls} ary expences attending their importation, this circumtance mut have brought back to the frontier countries a coniderable proportion of the wealth, which Rome attracted, as overeign of the world.

But when the revolution, caued by the religion and by the conquets of Mahomet, put a top to the Eat Indian trade down the Red ea, and acros the Arabian gulph, his followers, being rather of a military than a commercial dipoition, and not inclined to hare with Chritians what they retained of this commerce, the Eat Indian trade reverted, in a good meaure, into its ancient channel, and contributed to the upport and properity of Contantinople, which by this communication upplied Europe with Eat Indian commodities.