INDE X.

A.

66

Abraham, paid away, by weight, money current with

the merchants," 30.

Abstinence from food, effect of the doctrine of transmigration of souls, 17.

Accommodation bills, or kites, 232.

Accounts, art of computing, essential to commerce, 28. Activity. He who wishes to be a useful man must be an active man, 45.

Acts of the Apostles, quoted, 88, 89, 93, 228, 229.
Advantages of commerce, 3.

Advocates at Athens, allowed to speak a certain time, according to the importance of the cause, 63.

Africa, a question whether Tarshish and Ophir were situated in the East Indies, or on the eastern coast of Africa, 258.

African Slave-Trade legal, but not innocent, 92; The most crimson of our national sins, 242.

Agriculture, origin of, 180; Influence of on commerce, 185.

Agricultural tribes, Rome considered as one, 180.

Alexander the Great, conquered Tyre, 109; Causes of his success, 260; Founded Alexandria, 262.

America, injudicious exports to, from want of knowledge
of the country, 103; Colonies established in, 142.
Amusements, the Greeks fond of, 95; Amusements of a
merchant, 97.

Ancestors, dead bodies of, lodged as security for debt,
37; Introduced at festivals in Egypt, 37.

Anecdote of a Spartan mother, 57; Of a Carthaginian
captain, 123.

Animals, Egypt did not abound in, 11; Some held sacred,
and not used for food, 11; Swine held in abhorrence,
11.

Apologist for roguery, will probably become a rogue him-
self, 165.

Arabia, spices of, imported from India, 23; Had a
warm climate, but the inhabitants were active and
enterprising, 41; Its trade promoted by religious fes-
tivals, 75.

Aristotle, his instructions to pleaders, 62; Still regulates
our modes of thinking and reasoning, 101.

Arithmetic, useful to both ladies and gentlemen, 170;
Some things cannot be expressed by, 243.

Arms, the profession of, not incompatible with personal
piety, 238.

Army, the Roman, 187.

Aromatics and spices, imported from India, 265.

Art, discoveries of, circulated by commerce, 4; Of
navigation essential to commerce, 28.

Assurance of ships known to the Romans, 224; Not of
lives, 226.

Astronomy, ancients made use of in their navigation,

28.

Athens, situation of, 66; Coin of, 83; Bankers of, 86;
Cause of her greatness, 89.

Attica, the soil produced abundance of olives, but not
corn, 59.

Babylon, the inhabitants at all times in a state of civiliza-
tion, 51.

Banking, principles of, 151.

Bankers, among the Greeks, 84; Laws relating to at Athens,
87; Business of, 85; Among the Carthaginians, 157;
Among the Romans, 221.

Banks, the temples of Greece used as banks, 84; the
London and Westminster, 283.

.

Barbarous nations civilized by commerce, 5.

Barley, a liquor made from, drank by the Egyptians, 17.
Bottomry, known to the Carthaginians, 158.

Brass, the Roman money made of, 218.

Britain, the trade of the Carthaginians with, 122; Its
possession by the Romans, 198.

C.

Cabbages, the abundance of, affects the demand for ba-
con, 103.

Canaan, the description of, a negative description of
Egypt, 15.

Canals, very extensive in Egypt, 26.

Candidate, meaning of the word, 134.

Capital, a means of extending commerce, 148; Made by
saving, 148; Increased by banking, 154; Increased by
partnerships, 158; Increased by life insurance, 229.
Carlisle, tables for life insurance, 227.

Carrying trade, in the hands of the Carthaginians, 123.
Carthage, situation and history of, 112; Its trade, 113.
Carthaginians, commercial character of, 161.

Castes, institution of, in ancient Egypt and in India, 35,
254, 257.

Causes of the success of the Romans, 188.

Character of a people will influence their commerce, 40;
Of an individual, 40; Can it be discovered by his hand-
writing, 240.

Charles II, the post-office first established in his reign,
216.

Cities, the establishment of friendly to commerce, 64;
Formed by commerce, 65; Cities of Greece, 66; Usually
dedicated to some deity, and a festival established to
his honor, 72.

Civil government essential to commerce, 28.

Civil wars, none in Carthage, 112.

Civilization, introduced among barbarous nations by com-
merce, 5; Has always been imported by savage nations,
50; The original state of man, 50; How maintained in
Babylon and Egypt, 51; Causes of its decline among
the inhabitants of other countries, 52; Test of the extent
of in a country, 64,216; The permanency of modern, 105.
Clothing, some of the materials of supplied by commerce,

2.

Coin, none in Egypt, 29; Coins of Athens, 83; Roman
coins, 218; Coins of Tyre and Carthage, 157.
Colonial trade, principles of, 143.

Colonies of Greece not dependent on the mother coun-

try, 55; Of the Tyrians established for the purposes of
trade, 142; Their use to commerce, 139.

Comet, a man of genius without habits of business com-
pared to, 95.

Commerce, advantages of, 3; Promotes the happiness of
the whole world, 4; Circulates the discoveries of art
and science, 4; Has laid the foundation of the mightiest
empires, 5; the principles of studied as a science,
5-9.

Commerce of a country, depends on its productions, 9;

Upon its consumption, 16; Upon its geographical posi-
tion, 24; Upon its means of internal and external com-
munication, 25; Upon the state of the arts and

sciences, 28; Upon its laws, 34; Upon the genius and
character of the people, 40.

Commercial character of the Egyptians, 41; Of the Greeks,
88; Of the Carthaginians, 161; Of the Romans, 231.
Communication, facility of by means of roads or canals,
useful to commerce, 25.

Conquests of Rome beneficial to the nations they con-
quered, 196.

Constantinople, its trade with India intercepted by the
Persians, 273; The merchants of discover a new route
for India commerce, 274; Is taken by the Venetians and
the Crusaders, 276; Retaken by the Greeks, assisted by
the Genoese, who thus obtain the advantages of the
Indian commerce, 277; Is captured by the Mahomet-
ans, who thus obtain the whole of the commerce with
India, 277.

Consumption of a country regulates its commerce, 16.
Copper, obtained from the mines of Spain by the Car-
thaginians, 137; Money made of in Greece; the pro-
poser called the man of brass, 82; When coined in
England, 83.

Corinth, produced excellent generals, 193; A wealthy city
raised by commerce, 68; And manufactures, 89.
Corn, abundance in Egypt, 10; Sold by the Egyptians
to the Phoenicians, 24; Scarce in Athens, 59; Laws
relating to at Athens, 60.

Cornwall, visited by the Carthaginians to obtain tin, 137.
Credit, a means of extending commerce, 151.

Crete, possessed at one time great maritime power,
70, 118.

Cruelty, of the Romans, opposed to the spirit of com-
merce, 240.

Customs of a country have an effect on its commerce,

22.

Cyprus, an island famous for commerce, 118.

Cyrus, first employed public couriers, 216.