A new and complete dictionary of trade and commerce - containing a distinct explanation of the general principles of commerce; an accurate definition of its terms a particular description of the (14782990093)

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Title: A new and complete dictionary of trade and commerce : containing a distinct explanation of the general principles of commerce; an accurate definition of its terms ... a particular description of the different productions of art and nature, which are the basis and support of commerce ... foreign commerce ...
Year: 1766 (1760s)
Authors: Mortimer, Thomas, 1730-1810 Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. BRL Boston Public Library) John Adams Library BRL
Subjects: Commerce Industries Commercial law
Publisher: London : Printed for the author and sold by S. Crowder ...
Contributing Library: John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library
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hich its virtue, as a cordial, ismanifeft; but the analyfis fhews, it muft poffefs more ac-tive virtues than thefe people pretend : fuch a quantity ofvolatile fait was not deftined fora mere aftringent. KEUB. See Ken. KHATOVAT, a long meafure ufed in Arabia, and isthe geometrical pace of the Europeans : it contains threeakdams or feet, and twelve thoufand khatovats make theparefange. KIDDER, fignifies one that badges, or carries corn,dead victual, or other merchandize, up and down to fell.Stat. 5 Ettz. c.\l. They are alfo called kiddiers, j3 Eliz.c. 25. KIDNAPPING, is a ftealing and conveying away aman, woman, or child, and is an offence at common law,punifhable by fine, pillory, &c. Raym. 474. Alfo if amafiei of a fhip, &c. fhall, during his being abroad, forceany man afhore, and willingly leave him behind, he fhallfuffer three months imprifonment. 11 tf 12 Wd. III. KILDERKIN, a kind of liquid meafure in England,that contains two firkins, or eighteen gallons, beer cwji- fure,
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■inii;iiiI:iiimii K I R K O N fore, and fixteen ale meafure; two kilderkins make a bar-rel, and four a hogfhead. KILY, or Kilia, is fituated on the fouth fide of theDanube, about feven or eight leagues from the mouth thatdifcharges it into the Black Sea. Four or five thoufandpieces of fuftian from Scio are brought here yearly, and da-mafks from thence alio, to the value of about fix thoufanddollars; buckrams for more than thirty thoufand; befidestwo thoufand pieces of fuftians, made and fold in the place;coffee alfois fold here for fourteen or fifteen thoufand dol-lars ; flax for three or four thoufand; ftriped taffeties(called fantals) fof above fixty thoufand ; other forts of taf-feties for feventy thoufand ; of cloths, fifty or fixty piecesare annually imported : though of all thefe merchandizesfew are confumed at Kily, as this is only the ftaple, orftore-houfe, from whence they are fent to divers ports onthe Danube, or within land, as Ifmael, Temafwaer, Hias,Galas, and feveral o

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