4 oo COMMERCE. 
ti rely at a Hand. There came alfo formerly to 
Smyrna feveral rich Caravans from Perfia, which 
are not to be feen ncw,'nor do they continue to trade 
to Perfia, by way of Baffora ; and all this, b.ecaule 
this kingdom, formerly one of the nioft powerful 
in the haft, is now entirely ruined, partly by the 
tyranny of Thomas Kouly Kan, and partly by the 
fadions which after his death contended for the 
Crown. 
7. The Weights of Egypt. 
A Cantar of Cairo, one of the greateft Weights 
in Egypr, commonly contains 105 Rotteli, which 
make 38 Turkifh Oke. They have a fingular 
cuftom at Cairo, viz. each commodity is fold by 
its own weight, different from all others, fo that 
a Cantar of coffee is different from a Cantar of 
myrrh or incenfe. There is alfo for every com- 
modity a different manner of counting money » 
a piafter paid for incenfe contains fixty medins, 
■when paid for another commodity it contains per- 
haps forty, Sac. 
8. Cloaths. 
The Turks, even the pooreft of them, muft 
abfolutely, have new Cloaths at their Beiram, which 
fucceeds the Ramazan. By this the Europeans, 
but efpecially the French, who deal in Cloaths, 
become confiderabie gainers. It is very expen- 
Jive to thofe who hold great offices, and confe* 
iequently keep a number of Haves and fervants ; 
for thefe they muft alfo cloath at this time. They 
reckon that a Grandee in Cairo can’t cloath hi 5 
fervants for Ids chan 20,000 ducats at the Beiram- 
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