Copper, a metal; from Cyprus, an island in the eastern part of the Mediterranean.
Currant, from Corinth, in Greece, where these small dried grapes were first produced.
Damson, Damask, from Damascus, in Syria.
Dollar, from St Joachim’s Thal or valley, in Bohemia. These coins were first made there about 1518, and were called thalers or talers: whence dollars.
Florin, a coin; from Florence, in Italy.
Gin, an alcoholic liquor; from Geneva, in Switzerland. (Gin, a trap, is an abbreviation of engine.)
Guinea, a coin worth twenty-one shillings; from Guinea (or Gold Coast) in Africa, whence the gold of which these coins were first made was brought.
Gypsy, from Egypt, whence these people were supposed to have come. They really came from India.
Holland, a kind of linen cloth; Hollands, a kind of gin; from Holland.
Indigo, from India.