4 sacks are 2 per cent. less than an English quarter of 8 Accounts are kept in Ducats and Grains, reckoning 100 grains to the ducat. The current coins are grains, carlins, ducats, dollars, and The Naples dollar passes for 120 grains, and the Spanish dollar for 126 grains. 100 lb. Naples weight are equal to 645 lb. English. Brandy is sold per cask of 12 barrels, or 132 gallons; 60 karafts make a barrel. Sewing silks are sold per lb. of 12 ounces. Lustrings are sold per cane of 84 inches. Sugar, coffee, fish, and tobacco, are sold per cantar, of 196 lbs. in the United States. The cantar is subdivided into 100 rotolas of 33 ounces each. 298 06 2 casks 11 bbls. 4 kar. brandy 102 per cask TRIESTE. Accounts are kept in Florins and Kreutzers-60 kreut zers make 1 florin. The other kinds of money are Soldi and Livres. 20 soldi make 51 livres 1 livre. 100 lb. Vienna weight = 123 lb. Avoirdupois. A brace is 27 inches, or of a yard English. An orna of oil is 17 gallons. A staro of wheat is 28 bushels nearly-3 staros are equal to an English quarter of 8 bushels. Sales and purchases are usually made in bills on Vienna, at 3 months date. GENOA. Accounts are kept in Denarii, Soldi, and Pezzos or Lires. 12 denarii 20 soldi 1 pezzo of exchange make The course of exchange is various-from 47d. to 58d. sterling per pezzo or lire. In Milan, 1 crown 80 soldi of Genoa. In Naples, do. do. do. In Leghorn, 1 piastre = 20 The Spanish dollar was valued at 129s. 6d. in 1821. A Cantar is 100 rotola = 150 lb. of Genoa. A barrel of Oil is 1873 lbs. and contains 17 gallons Eng. 137 barrels are a tun of A Mina is 3 bushels, 23 Minas 236 ≈ 8 bushels PALERMO AND SICILY. Accounts are kept in Onges, Tarins and Grains. 1 tarin. Feb. 3, 1803, the value of the money of Palermo in U. S. currency was as follows: 21 do. = 1 onge =240 do. The Spanish dollar is current at 252 grains. The value of the onge at par is 11s. 3d. sterling. The exchange on London, Feb. 3, 1803, was 56 tarins for the £ sterling, or 10s. 8d. sterling per onge. A cantar of oil is 25 gallons English measure. The Sicilian barrel contains 9 gallons. Mahogany is sold by weight; one foot, board measure, will weigh about 2 rotola. The measure called Caffis is 31 gallons. The Salm is 485 lb. Avoirdupois. VENICE. Venice has three kinds of money, viz. Banco money, Banco current money, and Picoli money. Banco money is 20 per cent. better than banco current, and banco current 20 per cent. better than picoli. The different denominations of money are Denari, Soldi, Grosi, and Ducats. 12 denari, or deniers d'or, make 1 soldi, or sol d'or. 51 soldi 1 gros, or grosi. 93 pezzos. = 68 crowns. = 77 do. in Frankfort=139 florins. The par of exchange in 1798 was 501d. sterling per ducat banco. MALTA. In accounts, 20 grains make 1 Tari, 12 Taris 1 Scudo. The Spanish dollar passes in the Government Offices for 30 taris. In trade generally at 31 taris. Doubloons for 383 scudos. Accounts are kept in piastres and hundredths, except the English accounts, which from ancient custom are kept in piastres and eightieths or half paras. The fractiona. parts are sometimes called aspers, 100 aspers to 1 piastre. The following calculations are made in piastres and hundredths. A piastre is equal to 40 paras. The exchange on London was 13 piastres for £1 sterling in 1800, and in 1825 it was 47 piastres. The value of the piastre varying in that time from 34 to 94 cents. Their weights are the Rotola, Oke, Checque, and Tiffee. marked Ro. is 180 drams. A rotola 100 rotolas, 1800 drams, or 45 okes are a quintal of this country. 112 lb. English should render here 40 okes, or 90§ rotolas. 45 okes of this country render 1232 lb. English. A pike is 27 inches nearly. PRACTICAL QUESTIONS. 1. How much will 10 serons of cochineal come to, weighing net 724 okes 73 rotolas, at 80 piastres per oke? 724,73 Ans. 57978,40 piastres. 2. 229 bags of sugar, weighing 506 quintals 96 rotolas, tare 14 rotolas per bag, at 110 piastres per quintal? gross 506 96 tare 41 86 neat 465 10 110 Ans. 51161 00 piast. 299 14 1196 299 100)4186 41 86 3. 4 cases of opium, weighing gross 1026 rotolas, tare 84 okes 75 rotolas, at 103 piastres per checque? NOTE. 1 rotola is equal to 2 of an oke, and 1 oke to 13 checque. )1026 rot. Ans. piast. 6483 54 4. 893 pieces of copper, net okes 19743,85, at 12 or 70 paras per oke? 19743,85 70 4|0)13820695|0 Ans. piast. 34551,73 5. What is the custom-house duty on 19740 okes of copper at 21 agio 21 per cent.? 40 NOTE. The charges are all established by a tariff of the Levant Company. 19740 39480 9870 4|0)4935|0 agio 21)1233,75 amount of duty at 2 paras 30,84 agio at 2 per cent. Ans. piast. 1264,59 6. English consulage on 430 quintals, at 51⁄2 piast. agio 7 per cent.? 430 51 2150 215 2365 7 Ans. piast 165,55 |