COMMUNICATIONS, 
3d, The fines that are inflifted as a punifliment for ofFences. 
4th, The produce of fuch lands as on the death of the pof- 
felTors, without heirs, efcheat to the Crown, 
5th, Afmall tax on all gardens and date trees. 
To thefe feveral branches of revenue may be added, as ano- 
ther fource of confiderable income, the commerce in which the 
King is engaged ; for he feems, efpecially in the articles of tro- 
na and fenna, to be the principal Merchant in his kingdom. 
Gold duft conftitutes among the people of Fezzan the chief 
medium of payment; and value in that medium is always ex- 
prelTed by weight. 
Their common meafures of weight, and confec^ucntly of va- 
lue, are, 
The xarobe (or harrobe) the weight of which is four grains, 
and which expreiTes the value of thirty-three piaftres of Tripoli, 
or 6d. fterling. 
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