A new account of East-India and Persia, in eight letters being nine years travels begun 1672 and finished 1681 : containing observations made of the moral, natural and artifical estate of those countries ... / by John Fryer ... ; illustrated with maps, figures and useful tables.

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Title: A new account of East-India and Persia, in eight letters being nine years travels begun 1672 and finished 1681 : containing observations made of the moral, natural and artifical estate of those countries ... / by John Fryer ... ; illustrated with maps, figures and useful tables.
Author: Fryer, John, d. 1733.
Publication: London :: Printed by R.R. for Ri. Chiswell ...,; 1698.
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MACHAWO.

Coins.

Formerly the Course Dollar Silver, being in the Year 1657, and since, in Esteem, was current with them; but since they have coin∣ed Dollars of their own of an ex∣quisite Fineness, and buy our Goods with their Dollars, and re∣ceive them again for what Goods we buy; insomuch that all the Dollars the King Ferdinando, &c. ships, they brought back again, to their great Loss.
1 Cattee is nearest 16 Taies.
1 Teen is 10 Mass.
1 Mass in Silver is 10 Quandreens.
1 Quandreen is 10 Cash.
733 Cash makes one Royal.
1 Grain English Weight is 2 Cash.

Weights.

1 Pecul the Datchin Weight, is 4 Maunds Surat.
1 Pecul is 100 Cattees, which is near∣est 132 l. Averdupois.
1 Cattee is nearest 21 Ounces Aver∣dupois.
The Maund 27 ⅔ Surat Sear, of which 40 makes 37 l. Averdupois.