Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Geographical Distribution of Material Wealth, Vol. 2: Historical Notes Regarding the Merchant Company of Edinburgh and the Widows' Scheme and Hospitals
Queen of the Ocean, with Phoenicians for our pilots, and the stars for our guides, we might have ventured out beyond the Pillars of Hercules, and, steering a dubious course to the north-west, have visited the semi - barbarous in habitants of a misty and half mythic island, called Britain, to barter with them for the tin of Cassiterides, the only exportable article their poor country arded.
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