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'A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672. And Finished 1681. Containing Observations made of the Moral, Natural, and Artificial Estate of Those Countries: Namely, of their Government, Religion, Laws, Customs. Of the Soil, Climates, Seasons, Health, Diseases. Of the Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, Jewels. Of their Housing, Cloathing, Manufactures, Trades, Commodities. And of the Coins, Weights, and Measures, Used in the Principal Places of Trade in Those Parts.'
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CHAP. VII.
COLLECTIONS
O F T H E
Coins, Weights, and Pr
Ufual in thofe Places of Trade within the Char
ter of the Honourable Eajl-India Company.
. k < v • . - i +
Coins of Surat, Amadavad, Agra, &c. in India.
"^Here are divers Ibrts of Coins in Gold, feldom ufed in Payments
among Merchants, fome of a greater, others of leffer Value ; lb
alfo in Silver; but the Rupee is the moft ordinary, whereof
there are j
C Ca&Zjanaceri ;
RUFFE 9 < Hundea, C All valued at Matnoodoes 2 |; the latter is of
1 Magarree, P" greater Weight, but courfe.
C ChiUamee, j
MAMOOVOES are current only in Surat, and Parts adjacent; ;
they are worth fomewh^t left than an Englijh Shilling, but are (b account
ed in .the Company's Books; and among Merchants in the Countrey,
2 ^ Mamoodoes is reckoned a Rupee. Yet to change Aiamoodoes into Rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. ,
there is fometimes given 3, fometimes 8 or 10 Mamoodoes oh the 100 Ru~
pees, according to their Plenty or Scarcity, or as the Governor or Banyans
pleafe to advance the Camhio, which is called among them Vattaw: In
Arnio 1663. was given 20 Mam. per Cent.
1
PICE, a fort of Copper-Mony current among the Poorer fort of
People; of thefe, fometimes 12, 13, 14, if, 16, 19, to 24, make, or As
are reckoned to a Mawoodoe 5 therefore becaufe they rife and fall, the Com- 1^0, 61,62,
pany's Accounts are kcpf in Book-rate Pice, 'viz,. 32 to the Mam, and 80 63,whenCop-
-fke to the Rupee, for that without any reafon the Rupee is by the Ac- P e r wa sdear.
comptant fated at 2 5 Mam. whereas if it were rated at Mam. 2 \ per Rh-
fse, then in Book-rate the Rupee would fall tb be 72 Tke.
Weights and Meafures of Surat, Agra, &c.
The Surat Maund was formerly 18 Pice to the Sear of M d Surat oS r j s /
40^ and made 5 j /. J-vertlupois: At prefenc it is 40 Sear, double'fo'much.
of 20 Pice the Sear, which is 37 I M d Ecbarry, 4oS r ,3o Ptce the S r .'
The Maund Fucka at Agra is double as much , where is
alfo the Maund Ecbarry, which is 40 Sear, of 30 Pice to 4 ^ f
xhsSear, whereby IWw, Silks, and other fine Goods are fold. 3 ' we™, M surat.
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A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672. And Finished 1681. Containing Observations made of the Moral, Natural, and Artificial Estate of Those Countries: Namely, of their Government, Religion, Laws, Customs. Of the Soil, Climates, Seasons, Health, Diseases. Of the Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, Jewels. Of their Housing, Cloathing, Manufactures, Trades, Commodities. And of the Coins, Weights, and Measures, Used in the Principal Places of Trade in Those Parts.

Author: John Fryer, M D.

Publication Details: London: R R [Richard Roberts] for Richard Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St Paul's Churchyard.

Physical Description: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-xiii) and another Roman numeral pagination at the end of the volume (i-xxiv); with maps and figures; folio.

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The volume contains a table of contents giving letter numbers and chapter headings. Each chapter heading is followed by a detailed breakdown of the contents of that chapter. There are also an alphabetical index ('An Index Explanatory'), and an alphabetical 'Table of some Principal Things herein contained, neither reducible to the Index Explanatory, nor the Contents' of at the back of the volume.

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'A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672. And Finished 1681. Containing Observations made of the Moral, Natural, and Artificial Estate of Those Countries: Namely, of their Government, Religion, Laws, Customs. Of the Soil, Climates, Seasons, Health, Diseases. Of the Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, Jewels. Of their Housing, Cloathing, Manufactures, Trades, Commodities. And of the Coins, Weights, and Measures, Used in the Principal Places of Trade in Those Parts.'
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front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1:10, 1:14, 1:6, 6a:6b, 7:36, 36a:36b, 37:40, 40a:40b, 41:50, 50a:50b, 51:110, 110a:110b, 111:230, 230a:230b, 231:416, 416a:416b, 417:428, 1:24, iii-r:iv-v, back-i
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