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not be purchafed in the market for lefs than 

 one hundred and thirty quans ; towards the 

 period of their departure, it rifes to one hun- 

 dred and fifty : but if it be purchafed in the 

 winter time, that is to fay^ betvveen the firft 

 of June and the end of the Cochinchinefe 

 yeafj a period which correfponds with our 

 months of Odober, November, December, 

 and till tht month of March the year follow- 

 ing, it may be procured for an hundred 

 and ten, and even an hundred- Thofe 

 who are well acquainted with the country, 

 may find means to purchafe it at a ftill lower 



r^te. 



Weights AifD Measures, 



THE meafure ufed by the Cochinchinefe, 

 for buying and feiling, contains about two 

 of our French feet. This meafure, which 

 is called iblae^ h confequemly one half, 

 U d 3 waAting 



