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Travels in India,
Part. II.
Thefe thirteen pieces differing all in ^goodnefs* they never make
but when any queftion arifes concerning a fmall q uantity of Silver, or if a n
wrought Silver’. For they refine all their great quantities. All that kind of Silv
is brought by the weight which they call Tolla^ which weighs nine Deneers and
eight Grains, or 32 Val’s^ 81 Vars,making an Ounce: Sothatan hundred Toll/
making 38 Ounces, 21 Deneers, and 8 Grains. s
See here the differences of the thirteen Goodneffes of Silver.
T He firft, which is the loweft goodnefs, they take at fifteen Pecha’s to the
Molla, which makes of our Money nine Sous, two Deneers.
The fecond, at eighteen Pecha’s, which make ten Sous two Deneers.
The third, at ten Pecha’s, which make twelve Sous,fix Deneers.
The fourth, at thirteen Pecha’s, which make fourteen Sous, fix Deneers.
The fifth, at fixteen Pecha’s, which make fifteen Sous, ten Deneers.
Thefixth, at nineteen Pecha’s, which make feventeen Sous,fix Deneers.
The feventh, at thirty-three Pecha’s, which make nineteen Sous, two De
neers.
The eighth, at thirty-five Pecha’s, which make twenty Sous, ten Deneers.
The ninth, at thirty-eight Pecha’s, which make twenty-two Sous, fix De-
neers.
The tenth at forty Pecha’s, which make twenty-four Sous, ten Deneers.
The eleventh, at forty-three Pecha’s, which make twenty-five Sous, ten De
neers.
The twelfth, at forty-fix Pecha’s, which make twenty-feven Sous, fix Deneers.
The thirteenth, at forty-nine Pecha’s, which make nineteen Sous, two De-
neers. ,
Here it will not be amifs to give you an hint, how far the cunning extends,not
only of the Cherajfs or Changers, but of all the Indians in general $ and it Hull
fuffice to give you one example, which is very particular, and of which our
Europeans make no account: Which is this > that of all the Gold, which re
mains upon the ftone upon which they make the Efiay, and of which we make no
reckoning, they are fo far from lofing the leaft atome of that fmall matter, that
they fetch it all off, by means of a Bull made half of Black-pitch, and half of
Soft-wax, with which they rub the ftone that carries the Gold ; at the end of
feme years the Ball will fhine,and teen they get out all the Gold that flicks to it
This Ball is about the bignefs of one of our Tennis-Balls} and the Stone is fuch
a one as our Goldfmiths generally ufe.
Thus much of the Cuftom-houfes and Money currant among the Indians. It
remains to fpeak of their, manner of Exchange.
As all the Goods which are made in the Empire of the Great Moguls and
fome part of the Kingdoms o£ Golccndazn&Vifapeur arpTrought to Sur an to k
tranfported into feveral parts of u 4 (ia and Europe ^ the Merchants, when they go
from Surat to buy Gommodities in the feveral Cities where they are made, as
at Labor^ j 4 gra r ylmadjibaty Sermgej Brampour^ Dqca^Eatna, Baftarous, Golconda
Decan, Fifapour, andyi)^to ? :Takt -up,MQnef and are djfcharg’dat the
places where they go, by giving?kind for kind. Buf when it happens that the
Merchant is fhort of Money irt/tnofi* places, andvtfiatfhere is a neceffity for him
to takt up Money to compleat his AJafkets, he return it at Burnt with
in @ofMomhs,ypaying, Monthly tfir Change. . *
From Labor to Surqtt the Exchange goes at fixiiM i qhgrteisi^ s C^t.
From Amadahdt,/Tx(y$i one* to ©neand an halK \\ \ '
IT / 2 L .iX Tr r. 0 i \
II ^
Vrom Serongap at tlfoee. , ; .
From Brampittf froih two and ah half, tathre^ \\
From Dae a, at ten.(
From Banarou, at fix. ' h - \
cl iA rom three laft places they make their Bills of Exchange only to