Excerpt from A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World, Vol. 17: Many of Which Are Now First Translated Into English; Digested on a New Plan For any commercial intercourfe between Britain and thofe regions now called the Netherlands, and the wellem parts of Germany, there is no evidence till a far later period. Even in the time of Caligula, the Germans fcem to have known nothing of the fea, or of commerce; advantages gradually imparted by the Roman conquella. Even at later times, the Caledonians derived their few arts from their fouthern neigh bours, the German ocean prefenting a formidable barrier, conquerable by fearlefs and invading warriors, but not by timid and cautious merchants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.