4^4 MEMOIR ON THE 



Llvrcs. Sq\ 



The Dutch Florm - - 2 4 



The Cruz ado - - - 2 10 



The Pound Sterling - - 22 10 



Gold Ducats and Sequms according to their weighL 



Gold- 



THE Chhiefe have gold of different toks* 

 but they never give it to ft rangers, except 

 at the ftandard of ninety-three. The moft 

 efleemed comes from Gochinchina, It 

 has the form of fmall bars, and Is of a greater 

 degree of finenefs than common gold. It 

 is fuIEciently diflingiuflied by the different 

 figures imprinted on it ; but it is not always 

 free from adulteration. It fometimes hap- 

 pens that the mark fignifies the iok to be 

 ninety-three, when, in the infide, it is really 

 only ninety- one* This fraud is commit- 

 ted by putting the bar into the fire with 

 brick-duft and fait. The gold then qomes 



forth 



