The Persian 'Travels 



Book I 



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

 and twenty make a Toman. 



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

 One Or is five Abajps. 



A T 'man is another Sum in payment : For in all Per fan Payments they make ufe 

 of only T 9mans and Ors ; and though they uiually lay that a Toman makes fifteen 

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



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

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

 them into the Mint fo foon as he enters into the Kingdom-, but if he can cunningly 

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

 xhant goes out of the Kingdom, he is oblig'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 fome- 

 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 C rowns , which in Per fa juftly comes to twenty- 

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

 is to go for the Indies, or that the Caravan 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-feven , and twenty-eight Shayets , and fometimes 

 more, a piece. 



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

 Northern Provinces of Turky. 



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