ISLAND OF COS. 451 
The island contains five villages : it produces ^^J.'^^' 
corn and cattle. Its fine rich grapes were now ^— — v — ** 
selling for less than a halfpenny the pound : 
pomegranates and melons were in great abun- 
dance, and of delicious flavour. Its trade con- 
sists in the manufacture of barrels, and in the 
sale of 7vine, brandy, raisins, lemon-juice, pre- 
served fruit, &c. Corn sold for iour piastres and 
a half the quilot^:' the average price was 
reckoned at seventy or eighty paras. 
(1) The quilnt, according to Tourneforl, is a measure of three 
panaches; each panache is eight agues; and each vque is twenty-five 
pounds. SeeTournef.Voy. du Lev. tom.W. ;?. 109. Lyon,\1\.1. 
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