lins or 6 Tarins is a Florin, 30 Tarins or 60 Carlins is one Ounce, a Ducat is 13 Tarins, a Current Crown 12 Tarins, a Spanish Dollar 11 Tarins; an Ounce is about 12s. 6d. Sterl. a Ducat 55. 6 d. Sterl. a Crown 5s. Sterl. a Florin is about 2s. 6d. Sterl. and a Tarin 5d. Sterling. They exchange in Ducats, Carlins, Crowns, and Florins.

Their Measure for Woollen, &c. is the Cane of 8 Palms, about 24 Inches long.

Their Weights. 12 Ounces to a Pound, 2 b to a Rotello, 100 Rotellos is their common Cantar, which is about 176 lb Avoirdupois in London.

Corn is fold here by the Salmo, of which they have two Sorts, viz. a great one and a small one, and this laft Measure is the common one, and is about 7 Bushels Winchester Measure, and is about 17 per Cent. less than the great one.

Oil is fold by the Cantaro, which holds about 2 Barrels of Florence.

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The common Exchanges of Sicily are as follow: Spain, the Florin for 230 to 250 Marvedies. Florence, 20 to 30 Carlins for the Crown of 7 Livres.

"Sicily gives

Novi, 15 to 30 Carlins for the Crown. Naples, 160 to 170 Ponti for the Ducat of i 5 Tarins.

They exchange among themselves at so much per Cent. and they do sometimes exchange with London, Amfterdam, Antwerp, Venice, and Lions, giving always the Ducat or Crown in the Exchange.

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SECT. XIX.

Of PLACENTIA.

HE Bankers and Exchangers of this Place keep their Accounts only in Crowns of Mark, and Sols and Deniers of Mark; and in Exchange with any other Place, Placentia does always give the entire or whole Sum, either one Crown, or 100 Crowns. They reckon, as in most other Places of Italy, 12 Deniers to a Sol, and 20 Sols of Gold to a Crown..

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N this Ifland they keep their Accounts, and their Money is the fame as that of Sicily; the one being made of Silver, and the other of Copper, or Brafs, the latter being their Current Money; and in Buying and Selling of any Commodities of Value, it is always faid whether for Silver or Brafs Money, the former being counted 50 per Cent better than the latter. They have Spanish, Itahan, and Venetian Money among them, and in their Reckonings they count 6 Pichili to a Grain, 10 Grains to a Carlin, 2 Carlins to a Tarin, and a Deci Tarini at 10 Tarins.

SECT. XXI.

of MOREA, CORONA, PETRAS, &c.

IN

N thefe Places they keep their Accounts as do in Turkey, or in Venice; but they do gene

they

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rally reckon by the Turkish Coin, 80 Afpers to a Dollar.

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In their Weights they reckon 11 Drams to an Ounce, 12 Ounces to the lb, 3 lb to an Oak, 132 B to a Quintal, which is about 117 in London.

In weighing of Raw Silk they do reckon 15 Qunces to the lb.

They fell Oil by a Measure they call the Levor, and it weighs about 7 lb, 10 whereof fills Candy Barrel, which should hold 15 English Gallons, and weigh 112 Ib Avoirdupois.

Corn is here fold by the Bochel, 93 whereof is about 8 Bushels Winchester Measure; and they fell their Wine by the Loder, which contains about 8 Gallons English.

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SECT. XXII.

Of CANDIA.

N this Ifland they use the fame Money, and keep their Accounts in the fame Manner as they do in Venice.

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In their Measuring they make Use of 2 Picos, the one for Silk and the other for Cloth. Picos for Silk make about 61 Yards in London, and 100 ditto for Cloth make about 65 ditto. HAR

They have two Sorts of Weights, the Suttle Weight, and the Grofs or Great Weight. The 100 lb Gross Weight make about 118 b Avoirdupois in London, and the 100 lb Suttle Weight make about 76 Mb ditto in London.

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SE C T. XXIII.

Of TURKEY.

N Conftantinople, Accounts are kept in Lions, Dollars, and Afpers, reckoning 80 Afpers to a Dollar; and by these two Coins all their other Coins are valued. All Sorts of European, Afian, and African Coins pafs current among them, provided they be of good Gold and Silver, according to their Weight.

The Current Monies of Conftantinople.

Á Gold Checkeen or Cheffin paffes for about 243 Afpers.

An Afper is worth something less than an Halfpenny Sterling.

A Venetian Checkeen at about 280 Afpers. An Hongre, or Hungarian ditto, at about 240 or 250 Afpers.

A Spanish Dollar, or Piece of Eight, at 110 and 100 ditto.

German Dollars at 110 to 120 ditto.

And divers other Pieces pafs among them in the like Proportions.

Their Measure is called a Pico, of which they have three Sorts; the first for Linen, whereof 6 make about 9 Yards English; the fecond for Woollen Goods, 16 whereof is about 12 Yards English; and the third for Camlets and Grograms, 12 whereof is about 8 Yards English.

Their Weights. 4 Grains is one Quirat, 16 Quirats is one Dram, 12 Drams is one Ounce, 12

Ounces

Ounces, is one Rota, 150 Rotas is one Cantar, 400 Drams is one Oak, 176 Drams is one Lodera, and 100 Loderas is about 44 Oaks, which is called a Quintal or Cantar, and makes about 120 lb in London.

Their Weight for Coins is a Medical or Dram of 24 Killets, and 20 Medicals of Gold is 3 Ounces 3 Troy Weight.

Silk is fold by the Baleman, containing 6 Oaks. If the Baleman be weighed by the Lodera, it will weigh 13 Loderas and 112 Drams.

Corn is fold by the Killow, and weighs about 20 Oaks, and 8 Killows is about one Quarter London Measure.

Wine and Oil are fold by the Meter, which makes 8 Oaks, and is about of a Winchester Gallon.

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CHA P. XXVI.

Of ASIA.

LEPPO.] Here the Merchants keep their Accounts the fame Way, and have the fame Monies as in Conftantinople.

The Weights of this Place are the Rotulos and the Drams, but their Rotulo differs in Drams according to the Commodities.

The common Rotulo is 4 lb 13 Ounces, or 720 Drams.

The Rotulo for Perfia and Legge Silks is 680 Drams, or 724 Ounces.

The ditto for Belladine Silk is 720 Drams, or 74 Ounces, and for Tripoli Silk the Rota is the faine.

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