...time she progressively declined ALF till 1497, when her importance was en- j tircly annihilated by the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope. At the period of her greatest splendour Alexandria occupied an area of fifteen miles, and contained...

...is enabled to trade in the markets of the East, and the exportation of treasure to India, which uas been so much dreaded, instead of impoverishing, enriches...the Cape of Good Hope, and to the vigour and success wilh which the Portuguese prosecuted their conquests, ana established their dominion there, that Europe...

...Umm-edDunya (the Mother of the World) and other sounding appellations. Though it has much declined since the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and more especially of late years, it is still one of the most considerable cities in the East. It is altogether...

...two greatest events in the history of nautical discovery and of modern commerce, — the achievement of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and the revelation of the new world of America by the voyage of Columbus. Both these great discoveries...

...debt, the church, the army, or the navy. The Corn Laws press upon England just in the same manner as the discovery of the passage to India, by the Cape of Good Hope, pressed upon Venice and the other states, whose welfare depended upon the transit of the produce...

...brought up the Red Sea, to Egypt, and so passed through Alexandria to the Mediterranean. But aftei the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, around the south of Africa, its trade declined, so that at present it ia little more than a village,...

...direct to their present residence, and not have reached it by the tedious method of a land journey. The discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, in 1486, opened the way for the Portuguese conquests in the East. They maintained their supremacy...

...its walls ; but as the trading metropolis of the world, Alexandria retained its pre-eminence, till the discovery of the passage to India, by the Cape of Good Hope, towards the close of the fifteenth century, produced a total revolution in commercial aflfairs....

...the ancients linen must have been far cheaper than cotton, whereas the improvements in navigation, the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and still more the discovery of America, have now made cotton the cheaper article among us, and have thus...

...the foremost trading city in Europe, the importance of Venice and Genoa having declined ever since the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and the discovery of America by Columbus, both which great events had happened during the reign of Henry...