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Florence oil; it is exported from Leghorn. vorgine di Luccay) is exported either from L in ſtone bottles, packed up in c Spain exports alſo large quantl Cadiz, Ww the month of February. export-trade in this article, and has, oil, which is chiefly exported to Ho and is ſold by 108 guartanos. Morea,”or the 1 thé wörſ of any, and-merely fit

“it aúy way injured by pafling the equator. À

: The Britiſp Merchants[May

+* 8 Fine Lucca oil,(oglio eghorn, or Viareggias heſts, or in frkins, oxcaſatelli. ities‘of olive oil, ghiefly from here the ſhipméênt of the laſt year's produce begins in Alicant alſo carries on Aa conſiderable likewiſe, orders for Majorca lland, in pipes Or half-pipes, Levant oil, as 1fls called; from fands oſ Candia, Leſbos, Mytilene,&c. cc, is for manufatories‘of ſoap and woollens. The oil of olives is ſold in the kingdom of Naples, by ſalme, 2 meaſure which weighs at Âaples, 350lb.—at Baris 2lb.—and at Gallipeli, of 291lb. In the city of Naples the oiLis alſo ſometimes ſold by flari; of 10 1-third rottali 3‘and at Gallipoli and Lecce, by botti di mane, containing 3 ſome, Or 48 fara. At Leghorn, the Tuſcan oil is ſold-by barrels, Sw 4 net 8 5Ib.—the Gallipoli oil by ſalme, and the Genoeſe by barrels of 17olb. At Cadiz and Malaga, this article is ſold by pipes of 34 arrobas, weighing 2 5b. Spaniſh weight; at Liſbon and Oporto, by pipes of 26 almudas, containing each 12 canados, or 401b.— and at Trieſt, by Orne» of 1071b. Vienna weight.

In regard to the purchaſe of olive-oïl, great care ſhould be taken that it is not of unpleaſant Aavour or ſmell, not old, rancid, or impure, All ſorts of oil, eſpecially the common ſorts, ſhould not be kept long without being diſpoſed of, leſt they ſhould

e inirateid. LT heon of AX and Nice is, as yet, the only ſort

which does not contract a rancid taſte by being kept long, nor is 11 fine ſorts of oils

ily poured into other

ſhould, at the end of each ſummer, be gen rving them unhurt.

clean veſſels, which is the beſt means of preſe “ lam, Ot, YOUr VERY humble ſervant, A

_ Devonſhire-ſquare, April 18, 1800,

ami EE AA For the Commercial and Agricultural Magazine;

THE BRITISH MERCHANT. * NoumBER V.(

Hiſtory of Commerce continued, from the Age of Alexander to : that of Auguſtus./ Ts conqueſts of Alexander proved highly advantageous to the extenſion of Grecian commerce. Diffuſed over Aſia, - aS ifs ſovereigns, the Greeks wanted from their native. country many of its anufaGures and productions which their habitual endered neceſlary to their ordinary comfort of rchants had; henceforth, ſafer acceſs to i dominions; and to the

manners had r ſubhitence. Grecian me the harbours on the coaſts of thé Perſia