Excerpt from Narrative of Voyages and Commercial Enterprises, Vol. 1 of 2 Our cargoes from China, which were formerly paid for in these furs, and in Spanish dollars, are now procured for bills on England, for Opium, and for European and Ameri can fabrics. The cotton and silk manufactures of Indostan constituted formerly, almost exclusively, the cargoes of our ships from Calcutta, which were paid for in Spanish dol lars, and which generally yielded large profits. At this time our cotton fabrics are so much better and ...
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Excerpt from Narrative of Voyages and Commercial Enterprises, Vol. 1 of 2 Our cargoes from China, which were formerly paid for in these furs, and in Spanish dollars, are now procured for bills on England, for Opium, and for European and Ameri can fabrics. The cotton and silk manufactures of Indostan constituted formerly, almost exclusively, the cargoes of our ships from Calcutta, which were paid for in Spanish dol lars, and which generally yielded large profits. At this time our cotton fabrics are so much better and cheaper, as eu tirely to have superseded the importation of those; and most of the articles which now compose a cargo from Calcutta, excepting saltpetre and bandanas, were then scarcely known there, as articles of export to this country. Bills on Eng land in payment for these cargoes, as well as for those laden at other ports of India, have been substituted for Spanish dollars, 'which formerly were indispensable to the prosecution of this trade. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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