The Resources of Turkey Considered with Especial Reference to the Profitable Investment of Capital in the Ottoman Empire (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. 1862 Excerpt: ...the importers at Salonica, hence the prospect of an increase of the import trade in proportion with the increasing value of the export trade. The Austrian and Saxon manufacturers have, however, again turned their attention to this part of Turkey, and are now sending large parcels of low cotton goods into the country. The principal imports are: --Feom Great Britain. Manufactured cotton and woollen goods, tin, lead, iron, clocks, watches, jewellery, and colonials. From Germany.. Woollen cloths, calicoes, muslins, glass-ware, porcelain, steel, copper. From Italy.. Woollen cloths, firearms, glass, silks, velvet, paper, red caps. From Holland.. Colonials and woollen cloths. From Russia.. Silk, velvet, gold thread, gold lace, furs. From France.. Woollen cloths, caps, embroidery, coffee, sugar, indigo, cochineal, pepper, logwood, drugs, paper, lead and small shot. From Egypt.. Mokkha coffee, flax, linens, gum, incense, sal-ammoniac, drugs, and henna-powder.f From Smyrna.. Soap, madder, and dry fruits. From Candia... Oils, soap, lemons and oranges. From The Islands Of The Archipelago. Fruits, wines, silks. From Constantinople Silk stuffs, gold and silver brocades, yellow moroccos, worked amber, valuable pipes, &c. EXPORTS. Cotton.--The cottons known under the name of the cottons of Salonica are gathered in the district of Seres, a city of Macedonia, celebrated throughout European Turkey for the richness of its market, and situated fifteen leagues to the north-west of Salonica, in the midst of a vast plain, watered and fertilized by the river Strymon. The annual harvest of cotton in the valley of Seres was, fifty years ago, estimated at 70,000 bales; of which, 30,000 bales were exported to Germany, 12,000 to France, 4,000 to Trieste, 1,500 to Leghorn, and as many..