Oriental commerce : or the East India trader's complete guide : containing a geographical and nautical description of the maritime parts of India, China, Japan, and neighbouring countries, including the eastern islands, and the trading stations on the passage from Europe; with an account of their respective commerce, productions, coins, weights, and measures, their port regulations, duties, rates, charges, &c. And a description of the commodities imported from thence into Great Britain, and the duties payable thereon; together with a mass of miscellaneous information, collected during many years' employment in the East India service, and in the course of seven voyages to India and China. Originally compiled by the late William Milburn, ... a careful digest having been made from the papers left with his executor, and the whole incorporated with much additional and valuable matter, by Thomas Thornton, M.R.A.S.

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