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the invincible power of fate, that he could 

 never get to the twentieth. He is faid to have 

 been poffeffed of a whole arip, that is, 1000 

 millions of rupees ; which is an incredible fum, 

 when you obferve that the invafion of the 

 Mogul's empire by Nadir Shah did not cod 

 more, when every thing which can be 

 eftimated by money was taken into the ac- 

 count. 



Of the weights here ufual, a candee, or 

 candy, is twenty maunds, and a mound is forty 

 feer l : a feer is little different from a Swedijb 

 grocery pound. Their lefs weights I could 

 not get an exact knowledge of, but gold and 

 filler they weigh by the feeds of the Abrus 

 precatorius m , becaufe they are light, hard, 

 and durable. Their mofl ufual coin is the 

 rupee, .which weighs about twenty-one penny- 

 weights ; and it is faid, its filver is finer than 

 that of the piq/lres, on which account the 

 Chinefe take them fooner than piaftres n . .A 



1 One maund is thirty-feven pounds and z half, and one 

 candy is fix hundred wt. two-thirds. See Ro/t's Dictionary, 

 under the article of weight. F. 



m Formerly a Glycine, but fince changed by Linneeu* 

 in Ed. 1 2th of his Syftema Nature. F. 

 8 A rupee is about 25 6d flerling. F. 



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