Opportunities for Industry and the Safe Investment of Capital; Or, a Thousand Chances to Make Money (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859. Excerpt: ... THE MUSLINS AND SILKS OF INDIA. 25 hardly feel them in your hand, and the thread, when spun, is scarce discernible." The same writer says: "There is made at Seconge (in the province of Malwa) a sort of calicut so fine, that when a man puts it on, his shin shall appear as plainly through it as if he was quite naked, but the merchants are not permitted to transport it, for the governor is obliged to send it all to the Great Mogul's seraglio, and the principal lords of the court, to make the sultanesses and noblemen's wives shifts and garments for the hot weather; and the king and lords take great pleasure to behold them in these shifts." He also mentions turbans of such fine cloth, that 25 or 30 ells will not weigh four ounces; and another writer refers to entire garments that can be drawn through a lady's finger ring. Those swarthy natives had a delicacy of touch which enabled them to produce effects that transcend the powers of the most wonderful of our modern machines. But the staple commodity of the Bast for a long period was Silk. This article, at one time, sold at Eome for its weight in gold; and for about a thousand years the demand throughout Europe was supplied entirely from Asia. Between the sixth and seventh centuries, however, two Persian monks, at the instigation of the emperor Justinian, contrived to transport, in a hollow cane, the eggs of the silkworm from China to Europe, where they were hatched by means of heat, and thus Asia was robbed of an ancient and lucrative monopoly. During the dark ages which succeeded, Commerce, it is probable, suffered by the general paralysis. Men sought wealth, not by ventures to India, but by dark mysterious researches in Alchemy and Astrology. When, however, the lights of Commerce and Civilization, which had ...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859. Excerpt: ... THE MUSLINS AND SILKS OF INDIA. 25 hardly feel them in your hand, and the thread, when spun, is scarce discernible." The same writer says: "There is made at Seconge (in the province of Malwa) a sort of calicut so fine, that when a man puts it on, his shin shall appear as plainly through it as if he was quite naked, but the merchants are not permitted to transport it, for the governor is obliged to send it all to the Great Mogul's seraglio, and the principal lords of the court, to make the sultanesses and noblemen's wives shifts and garments for the hot weather; and the king and lords take great pleasure to behold them in these shifts." He also mentions turbans of such fine cloth, that 25 or 30 ells will not weigh four ounces; and another writer refers to entire garments that can be drawn through a lady's finger ring. Those swarthy natives had a delicacy of touch which enabled them to produce effects that transcend the powers of the most wonderful of our modern machines. But the staple commodity of the Bast for a long period was Silk. This article, at one time, sold at Eome for its weight in gold; and for about a thousand years the demand throughout Europe was supplied entirely from Asia. Between the sixth and seventh centuries, however, two Persian monks, at the instigation of the emperor Justinian, contrived to transport, in a hollow cane, the eggs of the silkworm from China to Europe, where they were hatched by means of heat, and thus Asia was robbed of an ancient and lucrative monopoly. During the dark ages which succeeded, Commerce, it is probable, suffered by the general paralysis. Men sought wealth, not by ventures to India, but by dark mysterious researches in Alchemy and Astrology. When, however, the lights of Commerce and Civilization, which had ...

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General Books LLC

Country of origin

United States

Release date

February 2012

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First published

February 2012

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Dimensions

246 x 189 x 7mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

134

ISBN-13

978-1-235-63420-8

Barcode

9781235634208

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1-235-63420-5



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