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articles above enumerated form colledively the Miri or public 
revenue; 1200 purfes of which fhould be annually forwarded 
to Conftantinople, but it is retained by the Beys, under pretence 
of repairing mofques and other public works. 
The Pafha receives, for his whole expenfes, one thoufand 
mahbubs, or three thoufand piaftres per day. His eftablifh- 
ment however is large, fo that this is not efteemed a rich 
pafhalik. 
Murad Bey is accuftomed to have from the mint daily, for 
his pocket expenfes, five hundred half mahbubs, and his wife 
the fame. This amounts to fifteen hundred piaflres, and is 
only a fmall part of his difburfements. 
The value of land in Egypt is far from being inconfiderable, 
as is evident from the large amount of the annual impofl which 
is paid for it. Yet not having been prefent at the formalities of 
bargain and fale, I feel myfelf unprepared to give an exad: 
eftimate of it. 
The fame may be faid of the value of labour ; for as the 
agricultural labourer is paid in the produce, a number of cir- 
cumflances combine to diminifh the value of what is thus re- 
ceived. Comparing the wages of the hufbandman with the price 
of other labour, I fhould be inclined to flate them at about fix 
medines, or one-feventh of a piaflre per day, which, as his toil 
is often remitted, cannot exceed forty-five piaflres annually. 
Exclufively of the value of the peafant's clothing, which lafls 
I 2 long. 
