Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXII. TRADES IN JERUSALEM. "The goldsmiths and the merchants." I Do not know that there is on record any account of the trades of Jerusalem, --a want very much felt hy those who wish to understand the modern city. I have endeavoured to some extent to supply what is wanting, by presenting to you a list of all the thousand shops and cellars congregated within the marketplaces. This is exhaustive, so far as the ordinary stores, warehouses, and shops are concerned, but it does not include the establishments kept up by the several convents and missions, and the few factories in out-of-the-way parts of the city. No less than 1320 shops have been examined, the trade, the number of active men, and religion, have been noted down. The result is this abstract, which, to those who wish to study the modern city, must be most interesting. Some of the men have one, or two, or three shops, and they often work in pairs; it was therefore considered desirable to classify the individuals, and not the shops themselves. We find, then, that there are 1032 able-bodied working men clustered together in the heart of Jerusalem. From this we may learn something as to whether the city is a city of industi7 or not. Bakers Bunkers .. Barbers .. Bath-men Bath (oven) heaters Blanket-sellers Bookbinders Book-shop Boys' schools Bread-sellers Butchers .. Canteen-keepers Carpenters Charcoal-sellers Chicken-sollers China-sellers .. Coal-factors Coal-sellers (?) Coffee-grinders Coffin-makers .. Cooks Corn-sellers .. Cotton-sellers.. Customs-men .. Dispensers (medicine) Dyers Farriurs Flour-grinders General shopkeepers Girls' schools . Glass-sellers, Greengrocers . Grocers .. Gunmakors Khan-keepers Kirby-makers Lentil-seller Lime-seller Lodging-keepers Meal-sellers...
