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History of merchant shipping and ancient commerce, Volume 1 (of 4)

Note 316 — Chapter VI

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One Rhodian Law quoted in the Digests decreed that silk, if saved, when shipwrecked, from wetting, should pay a salvage of ten per cent. as being equal in value to gold. Cf. Vopisc. in Aurel. c. xlv.

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