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ORIENTAL COMMERCE. [Isle of France, $c. 



numbers of turtle, which are sold at reasonable prices. The water is ex- 

 cellent, and is brought from a small river, about a league from the town, 

 by pipes to a reservoir, under which boats come and fill their casks with 

 ease and expedition. 



Coins. — The principal French coin in common currency is the sol 

 marqu£, of copper, equal to 3 colonial sols : — 



2 sols equal to. I cent. 



1} cent * I sol marque. 



10 cents • 1 livre. 



66$ marques „ 1 dollar. 



The following are the Rates of Exchange, compared with the dollar, 

 at which foreign coins pass here : — 



1 Bombay gold mohur per 7 J dollars. 



15 double fanams . 1 « 



is. 8d. sterling J „ 



20 cash 1 marque'. 



2 sicca rupees ...per 1 dollar. 



220 Bombay, or Arcot rupees ....100 ■ 



10 star pagodas 10 * 



10 Porto Novo pagodas 13 J „ 



10 Ikeri pagodas 17 « 



Accounts are kept either in dollars of 100 cents, the mode generally 

 adopted in public or Government transactions, or in dollars of 10 livres, or 

 200 sols, mostJy used by merchants. These livres are called colonial livres, 

 two of which equal a French franc. 



The following is an official tariff of the current money, and its equiva- 

 lent in colonial money. The ten livre pieces struck in the Colony under 

 the French Government, the five franc pieces of France, and the German 

 crown pieces, have the same value in exchange as the Spanish dollar. In 

 converting these monies into sterling, it will be sufficiently correct, for ordi- 

 nary purposes, to reckon the livre at o\d., and the sol at \d. 



Silver Coins. 



Spanish dollar at 10 colonial livres. 



Sicca rupee 5 



Bombay and Arcot rupee t J 



Half silver pagoda 8 



Double tknam , 



Fanam lg] sofc. 



Goi.n Coins. 



Spanish doubloon ...at 160 colonial livres. 



Portuguese half doubloon ....SO 



Ikcri pagoda 17 



Porto Novo pagoda 33 j 



Star pagoda 16 



Bombay gold mohur 75 



Bengal gold mohur qq 



