"Muscadel" Quotes from Famous Books
... appointed. The voyages were gradually lengthened, and reached Cyprus, and Tripoli, in Syria. The exports were woollen goods, calf-skins, &c.; and the imports were silks, camblets, rhubarb, malmsey, muscadel, and other wines: oils, cotton wool, Turkey carpets, galls, and Indian spices. The commerce was in a small degree carried on by English ships, but chiefly by those of Candia, Ragusa, Sicily, Genoa, Venice, ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — Robert Kerr's General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 18 • William Stevenson |