Excerpt from A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies, Vol. 2: Translated From the FrenchThis kind of traffic was not carried why all the Gauls. It appears from Cfefar's account, that the inhabitants of Belgia had prohibited the im portation of all foreign commodities, as tending to corrupt their morals. They thought their own foil fufiiciently fruitful to anfwer all their wants. The Celtic and Aquitanian Gauls were not (0 firiét To enable'them to pay for the commodi ties they might procure from the Mediterranean, and for which their defire was continually increaf ing, they had recourfe to a kind of labour that had never before occurred to them they collected with great care all the gold duft that was brought denim with thefand along the fiream'of feveral, of their rivers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.