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SPANISH WEST-INDIES:

Accounts are kept in Havannah, Laguira, Vera Cruz, &c. in dollars and rials, reckoning 8 rials to a dollar.

The Spanish arobe is 25 lb.

1. What will 123 pieces Bretagnes come to, at 26 rials per piece ?

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2. 21784 feet boards, at 45 dollars per thousand.

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4. What is the commiffion on 14792 dollars 5 rials, at 4 per cent. ?

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Anl. 591 dols. 5 rials.

5. What will 42 barrels of white fugar come to, weighing grofs 415 arobes 18 lb. tare and tret on the whole 858 lb. at 26 rials per arobe?

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Accounts are kept in Rupees, Annas, and Pice.

12 pice make 1 anna, 16 annas 1 rupee.

By the bazar, or market exchange, for June, 1797, the exchange was, viz.

100 English guineas were equal to 956 rupees 4 annas.
100 Spanish dollars were equal to 212 rupees.

In Weights-16 chittacks make 1 feer, 40 feers I maud.

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The imports are fold by the factory maud and current rupees.
The exports are bought by the bazar maud and ficca rupees.

100 ficca rupees are equal to 116 current rupees.

Bednah, tin-plates, and hides are fold per corge, 20 to a corge. The cavid is half a yard English.

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What will 3905 dry hides amount to, at 12 rupees per corge?

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Anf. 2343 rupees.

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How much will 189 bazar mauds 31 feers 8 chittacks of fu

gar come to, at 6 rupees per maud?

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Accounts are kept in Rupees, Quarters, and Rees.

100 rees make 1 quarter; 4 quarters I rupee.

218 rupees were equal to 100 Spanish dollars, in April, 1800. The current money is in Mohurs, Rupees, and Pice.

50 pice make 1 rupee; 15 rupees 1 mohur.

The weights are pounds, mauds, and candies; the pound the fame as English.

A Bombay maud is 28 lb.

A Surat maud is 37 lb.

21 Surat mauds or 784 lb. make 1 Surat candy.

Cotton is fold by the Surat candy.

Camphire and Mocha coffee are fold by the Surat maud.

Malabar pepper is fold by the Bombay candy of 588 lb.

In 274 bales of cotton, weighing neat 996 cwt. 2 qrs. 23 lb. how many Surat candies ?

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Accounts are kept in Pagodas, Fanams, and Cash.

80 cash make 1 fanam; 36 fanams 1 pagoda.

The Spanish dollars were in 1798 and '99, at 165 dollars for 100 ftar pagodas; making the pagoda worth 165 cents.

laws of the United States reckon them at 194 cents.

The revenue

The Bengal, or Sicca (new) rupee is worth 46 to 47 cents. The revenue laws of the United States value them at 55 cents.

The current exchange is 340 Sicca rupees, for 100 Star pagodas. A Lack of rupees is 100,000.

Cowries are fea fhells used as fmall money in India, and on the coaft of Africa, to make change among the natives in the bazar, or market, and in payment to the coolies or labourers. In May, 1792, a rupee was worth 5120 cowries. The common cowries are generally at 5 to 7 rupees per Bazar maud, the better fort from 10 to 14 rupees per maud, the price varying according to the kind.

The picul is 133 lb. English.

100 cattas make a picul.

A maud is 25 lb. Troy, 20 mauds make 1 candy.

The excellence of their cloth is defined by the threads in the warp.

The duty payable at the custom-house is 2 per cent. outwards and inwards. This is taken on imports according to the invoice, and on exports at the actual coft at the bazar or market.

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125 lb. Dutch are equal to 1333 lb. English.

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In 1333 rix dollars 163 ftivers, how many ducatoons ?

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What will 127477 cattas of bar iron come to, at 9 rix dollars

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per picul ?

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3. What will 3894 bottles of wine come to, at 36 ftivers per

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