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TRADE, MANnFACTURJt~, COMMERCE. 339CIVIC life as ariginally exhibited in Palestine, and subsequently inGreece. The houses of Guaudnum are claustra. Such we see here.Literally, a man's llOuse th~reis his castle. He does not, howevcr, mentionthe prevalence of the belligerent disposition elsewhere 80 predominant,butwhich indeed is an amusement somewhat incompatible withthenecessary intercourse of a trading place.guarded bya number of fierce dogs.Each of these castIes isThey are, too, ,deptJts of manufactures;and a gréat trade is driven thence byregular days of sale withthe hamlets of the interior of the range of mountains, more particularlyby Jewishmerchants, one of whou) is mcntioned with most respectabletraitsofeharacter.. It 'is probable that the vicinity of Santa Cruz tothis\tract. was.a principal cause of the former being shut as an entreptJt()f commerce, the mountainous tractbeing thought quite neal' enoughto pommunication with strangers at Mogodor, eight days journey. Thesepeopleallege that the Sultan's mother was born aplOng them.It ishardly probable that the orthodox, the famiJyof the Ptophet himself,would have gone amongheretics to look for a wife.If such a spirit ofCOmmerce reign~if the mercantile spirit of :rvfarseiJles were alive to theswéets of it, surely it is worthy the attention of British enterprise. Al.though at the western extremity bellum intet"llec/num is not an establisbedintercourse of.Jife, yet that compliauce with custom, whichordinarydecoTum enjoins, requires tl1at eve..y man should always goanned.' 'fhe s.tate tQO of the interior may b~ calculated fl'mIl the circUn1stance,that the fair and' Iawful profits of trade throughout thesedistricts il) l'at~d at foul'hundred to a unît.. Of course the risk cannothc inconsid~ra.ble, probably;is beyond itlsuranc~;No business, in thecOlumercial way at least, is done on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.Here are two races of men; a primitive domiciliated people dwellingin hamlets and castIes on the summits and in the fastoesses of hills, and2x2