once intended to have prefixed a Table of Turkish Mea- 
sures, Weights, and Money, corresponding with that given 
in the former part of this work. The instabihty of the 
coinage, and the various estimates a traveller will meet with in 
different parts of an empire so heterogeneous and extensive as 
that of Turkey, have prevented the introduction of any Table 
of this description. It may suffice therefore to say, generally, 
of the Piastre, and Para, wherein almost all calculations of 
payment are made, that fifteen Piastres may be considered as 
equivalent to our Pound Sterling, being the par of exchange * ; 
and that forty Paras equal one Piastre. 
As to the Measure of Distance in Turkey, computed by 
Time, (although the Reader will find this stated, perhaps, 
more than once in the following pages, he will not deem the 
repetition superfluous, when it saves him the trouble of looking 
elsewhere,) it is estimated according to the number of hours 
employed by a Caravan of Camels, preceded by an Ass, in 
moving from one station to another ; — one hour being equiva- 
lent to three geographical miles. 
* See Thorntons Present State of Turkey, Vol.11, p.:}8, {Xote.) 
Lond. J.S09. 
