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Excerpt from The Natural History of Aleppo, Vol. 2: Containing a Description of the City, and the Principal Natural Productions in It's Neighbourhood; Together With an Account of the Climate, Inhabitants and Diseases, Particularly of the Plague
Merchants; a chaplain, chancellor, phyfician, and an officer named a Chaufe who walks before the Coufal carrying a ?at? Tipped with filver. In the year 1753, the number Of Englilh houfes was eight, exclufive of that belonging to the Conful. In 1772, the number was reduced to four. It appears from P. Teixeira, who was at Aleppo in 1605, that there were then three Englifh families in the Faétory, including the Conful who at that time was a Merchant. The annual amount of the trade was efiimated at 300000 Ducats, and two or three {hips were employed annually in the trade.
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