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Accounts are kept in ducati of 24 grossi, the grosso of 12 grossetti (or denari) ducati, or in lire of 20 soldi (or marchetti) the soldo of 12 denari piccoli.

The following Table shows the proportion of these monies, as formerly reckoned and still partially retained.

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These monies are either currency or banco; the latter is only used in exchanges. The proportion is as follows:

One ducato banco or corrente is six and one-fifth lire banco or corrente.

31 ducati or lire banco are 48 ducati or lire correnti or piccoli. The ducato banco is nine and three-fifths lire correnti piccoli; a zechina is 22 lire correnti.

The new method of keeping accounts here is in lire Italiane, each 100 centesimi, according to the French system. This lira is of the same value as the French franc.

On London

On Amsterdam.

On Hamburgh

On Leghorn ..
On Paris..
On Naples

EXCHANGES.

27 lire...... for 1 £ sterling. 224 centimes.. for 1 florin.

..196 centimes.. for 1 mark banco.

.. 533 centimes.. for 1 pezza.

. 105 centimes.. for 1 franc.

..433 centimes.. for 1 ducato di regno.

WEIGHTS.

At Venice, as in most other parts of Italy, there is a great diversity of weights. Those chiefly used in trade are―

1. The heavy weight, or peso grosso, of 12 heavy ounces to the pound.

2. The light weight, or peso sottile, of 12 light ounces to the pound. 12 pounds heavy weight are equal to 19 pounds light weight. One carrica is four quintals, or 400 lb. light weight, or 2521 lb. heavy weight.

100 lb. heavy weight.. 105 lb. 3 oz. English.

100 lb. light weight...= 66 lb. 7 oz. English; and therefore

100 lb. avoirdupois

libbra peso sottile.

=95.069 libbra peso grosso; or, 150.537

The French kilogramme is used here under the name of the new Italian pound. It answers to 2,205 lb. or 2 lb. 3 oz. 4 dr. avoirdupois.

DRY MEASURE.

100 staja of grain are equal to 283 English Winchester quarters. Flour is sold per stajo of 33 pounds peso grosso.

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A bigoncia of brandy is, however, only 14 secchj; the bigoncia of wine weighs 64 pounds peso grosso, and the bigoncia of brandy 56 pounds. Oil is sold per migliajo of 40 miri: this is both a weight and a measure; it weighs 1000 lb. peso grosso, and contains about 180 English gallons.

100 braccia or ells for woollens are 74 English yards.

100 braccia for silk are 69 English yards.

VIENNA is the centre of the commerce of all the Austrian dominions, as payments in Trieste and other places are generally made by bills on Vienna: a great deal of exchange business is also done here for those places, and most of the merchants in the interior have a banker at Vienna. The most important part of the trade of Vienna is that carried on with Turkey, to which country are exported glass ware, cloth, hardware, and Spanish piastres; the imports are cotton, coffee, goats' hair, fruits, wines of Greece, and leather.

Among the numerous associations and commercial societies, the two principal are the Egyptian Company, and the Bohemian Linen Company, of which the former has an establishment at Smyrna, and exports various Austrian manufactures, and imports raw cotton, silk, coffee, &c. The latter sometimes make shipments by way of Cadiz to South America.

Accounts are kept in guldens or florins, each of 60 creutzers, the creutzer being divided into 4 pfennings.

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EXCHANGES.

On London, 10 florins for one pound sterling.

On Amsterdam, 140 dollars currency for 100 dollars Dutch.
On Hamburgh, 148 dollars currency for 100 dollars Hamb. banco.
On Leghorn, 1 florin for 58 soldi moneta buona.
On Cadiz, 200 florins for 100 ducats of exchange.
On Constantinople, 112 florins for 100 piastres.
Ou Paris, 119 florins for 100 ecus of three francs.

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The Dreyling wine measure 30 eimers = 448 English gallons.

Hence the eimer.

=143 English gallons.

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A saum is 275 lb. but a saum of steel is only 250 lb.

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A TABLE exhibiting the TONNAGE of OLD STAVES, of Leagers, Butts, Puncheons, Hogsheads, Barrels, and Half

Hogsheads.

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CORDAGE TABLES; showing how many Fathoms, Feet, and Inches, of a Rope of any Size, not exceeding Fourteen Inches, make a Hundred Weight; with the Use of the Table.

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At the top of the table, marked inches, fathoms, feet, inches, the first column is the thickness of a rope in inches and quarters; the other three, the fathoms, feet, and inches, that make up a hundred weight of such a rope. One example will make it plain :

Suppose it is required how much of a 7-inch rope will make a hundred weight? Find 7, in the first column, under inches, or thickness of the rope, and, against it, in the other columns, you will find 9 5 6: which shows that, in a rope of seven inches, there will be 9 fathom, 5 feet, 6 inches, required to make one hundred weight.

The Weight of any CABLE or ROPE, of 120 Fathoms in Length, and for every half-inch, from 3 Inches to 24 in Circumference.

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