The Resources Of Turkey Considered With Especial Reference To The Profitable Investment Of Capital In The Ottoman Empire

Excerpt from The Resources of Turkey Considered With Especial Reference to the Profitable Investment of Capital in the Ottoman Empire My Dear Sir, In the following pages I have endeavoured to trace the rise and progress of Turkish commerce, and, while engaged in making the necessary researches upon the subject, I have been more and more impressed with the fact that it is to the mercantile community, of which you are one of the principal members, that the extension of British trade in the Ottoman Empire is mainly indebted. In the year 1827 the value of our exports to Turkey amounted only to 531,704l., whilst in 1860 it had increased to the sum of 5,457,839l.; and it is to the energy and perseverance of the Greeks, who now supply the connecting link so long wanting between Eastern and Western Europe, that this remarkable progress is to be attributed. The Greeks of the present day possess, in an eminent manner, a thirst for knowledge and improvement, and have carried commercial enterprise to a degree of perfection scarcely paralleled, under similar circumstances, in the history of the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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