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Title: The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics
Year: 1809 (1800s)
Authors: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834
Subjects: Fashion Art, Decorative
Publisher: London : Published by R. Ackermann ... Sherwood & Co. and Walker & Co. ... and Simpkin & Marshall ...
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ted, to extermi-nate some of the prejudices of th«Moors against Christians, vvhich havehitherto proved the greatest obstacle toa most extensive and extremely benefi-cial commerce. It is not only the pro-,duce of the empire of Morocco, in itsmost extensive state, which will becomethe object of this trade, although thattrade alone, to a manufacturing nation likeours, is of sufficient importance, consist-ing, as we have stated, of raw materials;but Fez is, as before observed, the pointfrom which the caravans leave the empireof Morocco for the different inland mar-ikets of Africa, and to which they return.One of them proceeds to Mecca and Me-dina, to which places it passes throughthe fruitful vallies of Nigritia, along thebanks of the Niger, trading the wholeway. What an immense vent this willbe for our manufactures, particularlythose of iron, steel, cotton, silk, &c. mayeasily be conceived, independent of theprofits arising from the returns fromthese countries hitherto unexplored by
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BRITISH SPORTS. fS tjs. Another of these caravans crossesthe great desert of Sahaara, and proceedstowards the Senegal river, and reachesTombucto, so famous for its goldj whichplace, and the surrounding territory, con-tains a very numerous population. From the report of the Moorish mer-chants, gold is here to be obtained in anyquantity, and with little trouble. How farthis report may be correct, is in the eyeof a complete merciiant of much less con-sequence than mav be generally imagin-ed : he, like an experienced chemist, canextract the precious metal from articles inwhich, to a common observer, it mightappear not to exist. Habituated to regardit only as a commodity, although a valu-able one, like any other in which he hasbeen accustomed to deal, he rates it ac-cordingly; bat, at the same time, feelsan equal regard for any other article, bywhich he gains as much, or perhaps more,than by this highly valued material.Our confirmed enemies, the French, dur-ing the former government, had a

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