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CARLINGFORD , a small See also:market See also:town and See also:port of Co. See also:Louth, See also:Ireland, in the See also:north See also:parliamentary See also:division. Pop. (1901) 6o6. It is beautifully situated on the western See also:shore of Carlingford Lough, at the See also:foot of Carlingford See also:Mountain (1935 ft.), facing the See also:fine heights of the Mourne Mountains across the lough in Co. Down. It has a station on the railway connecting See also:Greenore and See also:Newry, owned by the See also:London & North-Western railway of See also:England. It was formerly a See also:place of See also:great importance, as attested by numerous remains. See also: The lough is a typical rock-See also:basin hollowed out by glacial See also:action, about 4 fathoms deep at its entrance, but increasing to four times that See also:depth within. The See also:oyster-beds are valuable.
CARLI-RUBBI, GIOVANNI RINALDO, See also:COUNT OF (1720-1795), See also:Italian economist and antiquarian, was See also:born at See also:Capo d' See also:Istria, in 1720. At the See also:age of twenty-four he was appointed by the See also:senate of See also:Venice to the newly established professorship of See also:astronomy and See also:navigation in the university of See also:Padua, and entrusted with the superintendence of the Venetian marine. After fillingthese offices for seven years with great See also:credit, he resigned them, in See also:order to devote himself to the study of antiquities and See also:political See also:economy. His See also:principal economic See also:works are his Delle monete, e della instituzione delle zecche d' Italia; his Ragionamento sopra i bilanci economici delle nazioni (1759), in which he maintained that what is termed the See also:balance of See also:trade between two nations is no criterion of the prosperity of either, since both may be gainers by their reciprocal transactions; and his Sul libero commercio dei gran (1791), in which he argues that See also:free trade in See also:grain is not always advisable. Count Carli's merits were appreciated by See also:Leopold of See also:Tuscany, afterwards See also:emperor, who in 1765 placed him at the See also:head of the See also:council of public economy and of the See also:board of public instruction. In 1769 he became privy councillor, in 1771 See also:president of the new council of finances. He died at See also:Milan in See also:February 1795. During his leisure he completed and published his Antichitd Italiche, in which the literature and arts of his See also:country are ably discussed. Besides the above, he published many works on antiquarian, economic and other subjects, including L' Uomo libero, in confutation of See also: Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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