<p The Persian Travels Book I. 



The Larin is defcrib'd in the Money of Arabia. Eight Larms make an O; four 

 and twenty make a Toman. 



An Or is not the name of a Coyn , but of a Sum in reck'ning among Merchants. 

 One Or is five Abajps. 



A Toman is another Sum in payment: For in all Ptrfian Payments they make ufe 

 of only Tomans and 0r* ; and though they uiually lay that a Tom.in makes fifteen 

 Crowns , in truth it comes to forty-fix Livies, one Peny and f. 



As for pieces of Gold , the Merchant never carries any into Perfia , but Alman- 

 Ducats , Ducats of the Seventeen Provinces, or of Venice ; and he is bound to carry 

 them into the Mint ib ibon as he enters into the Kingdom -, but if he can cunningly 

 hide them , and fell them to particular perfons , he gets more by it. When a Mer- 

 chant goes out of the Kingdom, he isoblig'd to tell what pieces of Gold he carries 

 with him *, and the King's people take a Shayet at the rate of a Ducat , and l'ome- 

 times they value the Ducat at more. But if he carry's his Gold away privately and 

 be difcover'd, all his Gold is confifcated. 



The Ducat ufually is worth two Crowns , which in Perfia juftly comes to twenty- 

 fix Shayets • but there is no price fixt in that Country for Ducats. For when the lcaibn 

 is to go for the Indies, orthattheCWz^«fets out for Mecca, as well the Merchants 

 as the Pilgrims buy up all the Ducats they can find out, by reafon of their light- 

 nefs-, and then they rife to twenty-ieven , and twenty -eight Shayets , and ibmetimes 

 more, a piece. 



The end of the Roads from Paris to Ifpahan, through the 

 Northern Provinces of Turky. 



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