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m LUCAS'S 
Twenty xarobes, 
or 
Eighty grains, 
r* I mitkal (an imaginary 
, , I coin of Fezzan) 
or > are equal to ^ , . , 
660 piaftres of Tripoli, 
'i^ios. flerling. 
In this view of the currency of Fezzan, the fmall fraflions 
that would be requifite to render it perfe6lly accurate are omit- 
ted. 
A mitkal is 675 piaftres of Tripoli, or a fra6:ion more than 
I OS. i~d. fterling, and confequently it exceeds, by a fraftion^ 
the amount of 20 xarobes. 
The grains of Fezzan are of the fame f weight as in Eng- 
land, 
•* In the nejohbourhood Tombudou a goldmitgan is worth about los. 6d. fterluig* 
Ben Alli. 
f Mr. Lucas found by his medicine fcaks, that the pea called hahbat ell goretb, 
which is ufed in Fezzan for a zv eight of four grains, is exa^y equal to four grains 
Englifi. 
In England one grain of gold is zvorth id.— one penny-zveight is zvorth j^s.—and one 
ounce is worth ^l.Jierling. 
Re Es's Edition of Chambers's Diaionaiy, Article " Gold." 
