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THE PELOPONNESUS.
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abundance of timber for the building of
vessels, the Peloponnesus possessed ample
natural qualifications for becoming the seat
of a flourishing trade, and the scene of
mercantile activity. This source of prospe-
rity, however, was in fact never attained.
The states of the Peninsula were too much
occupied in the struggles of international
warfare, to devote their attention to the more
useful and humanizing pursuits of peace.
Few ships were seen in its ports; there was
little interchange of its own produce with that
of foreign lands; nor could it boast any great
skill or success in domestic manufactures for
the advantage of its own inhabitants. The
exceptions to this assertion are found in the
instances of Patr^e, Sicyon, and Corinth,
which enjoyed the advantage of possessing
the most desirable situations for mercantile
purposes, and which were removed from the
101
abundance of timber for the building of
vessels, the Peloponnesus possessed ample
natural qualifications for becoming the seat
of a flourishing trade, and the scene of
mercantile activity. This source of prospe-
rity, however, was in fact never attained.
The states of the Peninsula were too much
occupied in the struggles of international
warfare, to devote their attention to the more
useful and humanizing pursuits of peace.
Few ships were seen in its ports; there was
little interchange of its own produce with that
of foreign lands; nor could it boast any great
skill or success in domestic manufactures for
the advantage of its own inhabitants. The
exceptions to this assertion are found in the
instances of Patr^e, Sicyon, and Corinth,
which enjoyed the advantage of possessing
the most desirable situations for mercantile
purposes, and which were removed from the