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CHAP. CCXXVI. Of Conixburg, and the Trade thereof.
* 1.1COnixburg, vulgarly called Queensburg, and in Italian, Mount Royal, is the Metropolis of this Dutchy, seated upon an Inlet of the Baltick Sea, and washed with the pleasant River Fiegol; it is found to have an Academy for Sciences, and well stored with Merchants from all the Northern parts of the World; and here the Merchants of Prusen keep their Factors for the vending of their inland Commodities. Upon this shore is also found in some quantity that excellent Amber, which the Inhabitants call Berstein, which in English may be translated the Burning Stone, of which some Writers make three sorts, the first coming from certain Gummy Trees, the second made by Art of Gold and Silver, and other ingre∣dients; and the third, this sort coming naturally from the bottom of these Seas, which for six Months are frozen up, and deny the Sea-man and Merchant the use of Navigation.
* 1.2The Monies and Accounts here in use are mentioned before: and the common Weight used amongst Merchants is the Stone, containing 40 pound, and 10 Stone makes a Ship pound, of 400 pound, and the 100 l. Averdupois of London doth yield here about 120 l. or 112 l. besides which, they have also the Ship pound of Dantzick in use for some Commodities of 350 l. but this Weight is to be avoided by the Strangers as being ever accounted too favourable to the Citizens.
* 1.3The common Measure of length is the Ell here for all Commodities measureable: the 100 Yards of London, hath made here by Observation 166½ incirca. And thus much shall suffice to have said of this City; from whence proceeding, I come next to Rhiga and Revel, two eminent Cities in this Tract.