...mouldings of a peculiar form. Modern Alexandria is a diminutive city in comparison with the ancient. The discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope destroyed a large share of its commercial importance, but of late years it has somewhat revived....

...which they became converted, and the causes that have produced their renegation. It is singular that the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, instead of having promoted the great cause of Christian conversion, should have been the reason,...

...that time, the Italian cities, and those on the Baltic Sea, engrossed the whole commerce of Europe. The discovery of the passage to India, by the Cape of Good Hope, and of America, with the facility which the discovery of the magnetic needle had given to the navigation...

...instead of commercial, and preferring political importance to wealth obtained by their original modes." The discovery of the passage to India, by the Cape of Good Hope, with that of America, and the consequent attention to commerce th'ereby excited in other nations,...

...that superiority which the northern nations had so long enjoyed. In addition to this circumstance, the discovery of the passage to India, by the Cape of Good Hope, and of America, with the facility which the discovery of the magnetic needle had given to the navigation...

...greatest among the great, the mother of the world, and the delight of the imagination.' Previous to the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, the Oriental commerce of Cairo was very extensive ; but since that time it has greatly declined,...

...India, which has been so much tlreaded, instead of impoverishing enriches the kingdom. VIII. It is to the discovery of the passage to India by the cape of Good Hope, and to the vigour and success with which the Portuguese prosecuted their conquests and established their...

...have been brought into view in the course of this work. In addition it may be observed, that before the discovery of the passage to India, by the Cape of Good Hope, all the productions of the east, that were distributed in Europe, came to Egyptian ports. Hence...

...India, which has been so much dreaded, instead of impoverishing enriches the kingdom. VIII. IT is to the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and to the vigour and success with which the Portuguese prosecuted their conquests and established their...

...India, which has been so much dreaded, instead of impoverishing enriches the kingdom. VIII. IT is to the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and to the vigour and success with which the Portuguese prosecuted their conquests and established their...