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Pagoda is 184 cents in the United States.

Sea shells, called cowries are used for change; their value varies with their quality.

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Candereen 10 cash,

The Spanish dollar passes at 72 candereens, which

makes the candereen worth,

But the tale is reckoned in the United States,

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The principal difference is in the number of shillings in the Spanish dollar, while a pound is 20 shillings, and a shilling is 12 pence, at Jamaica and Bermudas, the Spanish dollar is 6 shillings and 8 pence. Hence the

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Pound 20 shillings 3 dollars,
Shilling=12 pence,

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$ c. 3.00

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Penny,

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At Barbadoes, the Spanish dollar is 6 shillings and 3 pence.

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In some of the Islands the Spanish dollar passes for 8 livres and 5 sols, and in others for 9 livres. In the former, the

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IN MARTINICO, TOBAGO AND ST. CHRISTOPHERS, The English inhabitants keep their accounts in the denominations of English money, and the French, in those of France. But the round dollar passes for 9 shillings, and the current dollar at 8 shillings and three pence, or, the round is to the current dollar as 12 to 11. So that 99 livres 11 round dollars or =12 current dollars.

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TABLE II.

OF THE MONEY OF THE JEWS, GREEKS, AND ROMANS, WITH THE VALUE IN STERLING AND FEDERAL MONEY.*

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Talent of Gold

In this estimate the value of gold is to that of silver nearly as

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*Authors differ respecting the precise value of ancient money. The common

estimate is here given, which is, at least sufficiently near the truth.

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This ratio of the aureus to the denarius is that mentioned by Tacitus.

TABLE III.

OF MEASURES OF LENGTH AND CAPACITY AND WEIGHTS OF VARIOUS COUNTRIES.

THE table of English and American measures has been given under compound addition.

Compared with the French measure, the English inch is 0.2539940539585323821235+ of a French metre.

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1 Fall=6 ells,

48 Scotch acres are very nearly

2231 inches. 61 acres.

For the measure of Wheat, Peas, Beans, Rye, and White Salt, 100 Bolls equal 409 bushels, Winchester measure.

For Barley, Oats, and Malt.

100 Bolls equal 596 bushels, Winchester measure.
Note. The Boll varies in different parts of Scotland.

IRELAND.

The Irish and English foot and yard are equal.

=2240 yards.

14 miles.

196 acres.

1740-8 cubic inches,

The Irish mile,

11 miles Irish,

121 acres

The Irish bushel contains

FRANCE.*

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Quadrant of the Meridian, 100 French degrees, 90 English degrees.

* France is the only nation, which has established an invariable standard of measure. The linear unit of the French measure is the metre. By accurate observations and calculations the length of the meridian from the Equator to the pole, which passes through the city of Paris, was ascertained to be 5130740 toiscs of six feet each of the ancient French measure. This number of toises is equal to 30784440 French feet, or 32809167 English feet. The metre is onc ten millionth part of this are of the meridian, or 3078444 feet, which is 3 feet 11 lines, and 295936 of a line of the former French measure. All other measures are derived from the metre.

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In England, it has been proposed to make the length of the pendulum to vibrate seconds at London, the standard of measure. At the level of the sea, and when the temperature is 62d. Far. and in lat. 51d. 31′ 8.4" N. the length of the pendulum to vibrate in a second is 39-1336 inches, English, as very accurately determined by Capt. Kater. According to Capt. Kater's measure, the French metre is 39-37073 inches English, at the same temperature, and may be taken with sufficient accuracy to be 39-371 inches. These measures will vary a little according to the scale on which they are estimated. If Troughton's scale of 36 inches be taken as the standard, General Roy's Scale is 36.00036 inches, and Bird's Parliamentary standard of 1758, is 36-00023 inches. And if the scale of 1758 be the standard, Troughton's scale is 35-99977 inches. According to Mr. Hassler, the French metre is 3:28168733 feet on Troughton's Seale.

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