Counting grains
Posted: 10:16 Fri 11 Apr 2014
Reading about the trade between England and Portugal in the early seventeenth century, in Fisher's great book 'The Portugal Trade', I came across this line:
"From 1705 until 1735 rice was an enumerated commodity."
This suggests not only that they counted each grain, but that someone had to stamp a number on it and write it in a ledger too!
"From 1705 until 1735 rice was an enumerated commodity."
This suggests not only that they counted each grain, but that someone had to stamp a number on it and write it in a ledger too!
