The quantities of merchandize also which merchants carry up and down this river are past all belief.
And an immense quantity of merchandize comes hither, for the city is the seat of government for this part of the country.
Indeed as it has a course of such great length, and receives so many other navigable rivers, it is no wonder that the merchandize which is borne on it is of vast amount and value.
For 'tis the greatest and noblest city, and the finest for merchandize that the whole world containeth.
There runs through the city a great and wide river, on which a large traffic in silk goods and spices and other costly merchandize passes up and down.
Tis a place where few traders go, because there is very little merchandize to be got there, and it is a place not very accessible.
The haven is very large and good, and is frequented by numerous ships with goods from India, and from this city the spices and other merchandize are distributed among the cities and towns of the interior.
There is also a quantity of cotton which is exported hence to many quarters; and there is a great trade in hides, which are very well dressed; with many other kinds of merchandize too tedious to mention.
They live by merchandize and industry, for they are professed traders, and carry on much traffic by sea and land in all directions.
NOTE 3] The Great Kaan derives a very large revenue from the duties paid in this city and haven; for you must know that on all the merchandize imported, including precious stones and pearls, he levies a duty of ten per cent.
Having told you of the revenue from salt, I will now tell you of that which accrues to the Great Kaan from the duties on merchandize and other matters.
From this city to the Eastward 60 leagues lieth the prouince Sonsonate, where I solde the merchandize I caried out of Noua Hispania.
In certeine prouinces which are called Guatimala, and Soconusco, there is growing great store of cacao, which is a berry like vnto an almond: it is the best merchandize that is in all the Indies.
The chiefest merchandize which they lade there in small frigats, is a certeine wood called campeche, (wherewith they vse to die) as also hides and annile.
Here the Christians haue their mighty mules, which they cary for all the parts of the Indies, and into Peru, for that all their merchandize are carried by this meanes by land.
Innumerable canoes were seen in all directions, some employed in fishing, and others passing with provisions or merchandize of all kinds.
On the upward voyage these are impassable for merchandize vessels; and, though the large steamers struggle through many of them, there are others which no force can cope with.
Ever since the 17th December a vexatious system of passports and consular regulations as tomerchandize had been in force.
I will inform you by the spring caravan what merchandize to send here next autumn.
The Arabs of Sahara are the carriers of merchandize throughout North Africa, and the Moors are in the constant habit of selling 265 gum to the French on the Senegal.
The commodities exported were twice as much in value as the foreign merchandize imported, and shipping is said to have increased an hundred-fold.
His land being marked out at the Arkansas, consisted of four leagues square, and was erected into a duchy, with accoutrements for a company of dragoons, and merchandize for more than a million of livres.
The French and Spaniards purchased in this island great numbers of negroes for the supply of their settlements, together with great quantities of merchandize of the manufactures of Great Britain.
Instead of sending her merchandize to New York, she would find in Galveston a readier market to supply our southern States through the medium of contraband.
In order to give the reader some notion of that vast tract of country, over which the merchandize is frequently transported by land carriage, a list of the distances is here subjoined.
The Chinese merchant comes first to Kiachta, and examines the merchandize he has occasion for in the warehouse of the Russian trader; he then goes to the house of the latter, and adjusts the price over a dish of tea.
The commerce between the Russians and Chinese is entirely a trade of barter, that is, an exchange of one merchandize for another.
Description of Zuruchaitu--and its trade--transport of the merchandize through Siberia.
The sitting room looks seldom towards the streets: it is a kind of shop, where the several patterns of merchandize are placed in recesses, fitted up with shelves, and secured with paper doors for the purpose of keeping out the dust.
And the Russians find it more advantageous to takemerchandize in exchange, than to receive bullion at the Chinese standard.
The humanity of the document is perfectly of a piece with that of the system which would civilize mankind by making merchandize of them.
The reason of duties did not hold, as slaves are not, like merchandize consumed, &c.
Merchandize up at Vendue on board a Vessel in the Harbour and purchased the most of them himself and ship't them to Rhode Island on his own account; then said Sloop Sailed for Barbadoes on wch.
A judicious officer conducted the detachment, and stores of European merchandize were confided to him for the purposes of traffic.
Give us of these, according to our need, and you shall have of the merchandize of the French in just proportion.
And similarly, it is manifest that as fast as the division of labour among the classes of a community becomes greater, there must be an increasing heterogeneity in the currents of merchandize flowing throughout that community.
Not long afterwards, they beheld the merchandize and dead bodies floating on the waters, and from thence concluded, that the hurricane had destroyed the ship which followed them.
On this account, too, companionship was sought after, the leadership of some one familiar with the ground, and hence merchants and merchandize generally moved in caravans.
This prohibition corresponded to another that they had extorted, according to which all merchandize coming from the extreme end of the Norwegian kingdom was obliged to pass through and halt at their station of Bergen.
These, too, must be guarded, or how could merchandize be brought from place to place.
Commission and agency dues were not wholly unknown, but happily there was not existent that pernicious scourge of modern trade, the time bargains, which permit merchandize to be sold a dozen times over before it actually exists.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "merchandize" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
