CONNEXION OF WORDS—THE WORD "FREIGHT."

The word employed to denote *freight*, or rather the *price of freight*, at this day in the principal ports of the Mediterranean, is *nolis*, *nolo*, &c. In the Arabian and Indian ports, the word universally employed to denote the same meaning is *nol*. Are these words identical, and can their connexion be traced? When we consider the extensive commerce of the Phœnicians, both in the Mediterranean and Indian seas, that they were the great merchants and carriers of antiquity, and that, in the words of Hieron, "their numerous fleets were scattered over the Indian and Atlantic oceans; and the Tyr…