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 French<br><br>The Celtic and Aquitanian Gauls were not fo firiéh To enable them to pay for the commodi' ties they might procure from the Mediterranean, and for which their deflre was continually increaf ing, they had recourfe to a kind of labour that had never before occurred to them they collec'ted with great care all the gold duft that was brought down with thefand along the firearm of feveral of their rivers.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This 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.