Note 1 — CHAP. IV.
Reading edition
: GIBBON, Decl. and Fall, ch. lxiii.
2: DARU, Hist. de Venise lib. xix. vol. iv. p. 74. MACPHERSON'S Annals of Commerce, vol. i. p. 370.
3: So impatient were the Venetians to grasp the trade of Alexandria that Marino Sanuto, about the year 1321 A.D., endeavoured to excite a new crusade in order to wrest it from the Sultan of Egypt by force of arms, Secreta Fidelium Crucis, in BONGARS, Gesta Dei per Francos, Hanau, 1611. ADAM SMITH, Wealth of Nations, b. iv. ch, vii DARU, Hist. de Venise, lib. xix, vol. iv, p. 88.
4: GIBBON, Decl. and Fall, ch. lx. The last of the Venetion "argosies" which reached the shores of England was cast away on the Isle of Wight, A.D. 1587.