I have visited several manufactories of carpets, mats, silk, linen, and leather, of which the merchants export great quantities.

After the galleons to Acapulco, which had been maintained at the expense of the government treasury, had stopped their voyages, commerce with America was handled by merchants who were permitted in 1820, to export goods up to $750,000 annually from the Philippines and to visit San Blas, Guayaquil and Callao, besides Acapulco.

The present inhabitants of that island make a small quantity of excellent wine for their own use and are liberal of it to strangers who travel that way, but dare not, being under Turkish government, cultivate the vines well, or export the product of them. {81a} In the same manner as Gulliver's island of Laputa.

But, in the first place, to export cotton, they must produce itthey must have money; it is almost impossible that the State should be rich when all its citizens are in distress; then the exportation itself will be exposed to some difficulties if the United States organize a blockade.

Their factories are enormously productive, but their people will suffer for food unless they can export manufactures.

The present scarcity is imputed, by some, to the bounty for exporting corn, which is considered as having a necessary and perpetual tendency to pour the grain of this country into other nations.

In 1836 two gentlemen of Antigua, {43a} Mr. Bennett and Mr. Wood, set up sulphur works at the Souffriere of St. Lucia, and began prosperously enough, exporting 540 tons the first year.

The empire exports food and raw materials, robbing the soil of priceless constituents, and buys manufactured goods which ought to be produced at home.

Of this gross two hundred million pounds, we export one hundred and twenty-two millions, leaving about seventy-eight millions for home consumption.

From the port of Mogador are exported the richest articles the country produces, viz., almonds, sweet and bitter gums, wool, olive-oil, seeds of various kinds, as cummin, gingelen, aniseed; sheep-skins, calf, and goat-skins, ostrich-feathers, and occasionally maize.

The permission given to them in 585 to export grain from Sicily shows the continuance of the good understanding with Rome.

But the concession failed to conciliate a single Colonist; it had become, as Burke said four years afterward, a matter of feeling, and the irritation fed on itself, till, in 1773, a fresh act, empowering the East India Company to export tea to the Colonies direct from their own warehouses without its being subject to any duty in Englandwhich Lord North undoubtedly intended as a boon to the Colonistsonly increased the exasperation.

Meantime, with a view to obtaining increased prices, the Government resolved to export the tobacco themselves to the usual markets for sale; and in the year 1868 this resolution was really carried out.

[r]; Geoffrey Fitz-Pierre, the chief justiciary, gave two good Norway hawks, that Walter le Madine might have leave to export a hundred weight of cheese out of the king's dominions [s].

Before the days of cold storage, Australia and New Zealand could not export their mutton to European markets, though they could export their wool.

The inhabitants export some cattle and grain; and I was told, they import nothing but iron and salt.

But if, while we export fashions to this country, we should receive in exchange her republican systems, it would be a strange revolution indeed; and I think, in such a commerce, we should be far from finding the balance in our favour.

Should an individual wish to export a single horse, he would have to pay sixty dollars, a duty which entirely amounts to a prohibition, many of the boasted beasts not being worth twenty dollars.

Yet these are all of them specialized products, and Greece will never export any staple commodity to rival the grain which Rumania sends in such quantities to central Europe already, and which Bulgaria will begin to send within a few years' time.

The gold shipping points for importing or exporting gold are respectively par of exchange plus or minus the cost of moving the actual metal.

In the earlier days of maritime traffic there was little possibility of exporting the numerous agricultural productions of the colony; and it was scarcely worth while, therefore, to make the most of the land.

'Is there not a law, Sir, against exporting the current coin of the realm?' WlLKES.

Until Hindenburg called up his immense levies in the late summer, Germany exported steel building materials and coal to contiguous neutral countries, but she can no longer do this.

Before the days of cold storage, Australia and New Zealand could not export their mutton to European markets, though they could export their wool.

MERGUI, a small seaport near the mouth of the Tenasserim, British Burma, which exports birds' nests to China.