Corn is fold here by the Mine, 20 Mines make a Ton of 40 Bushels Winchester Measure. Oil is fold by the Barrel, 14 whereof make a Ton of 236 Gallons of London Civil Gauge. The Ufance of Genoa. To London, 3 Months af- To Gaieta, 10 Days. ter Date. To Lions, from Fair to To Avignon, 15 Days Sight. to Genoa gives To Milan, 5 Days Sight. The Course of the Exchanges of Genoa. London, the Piaftre of 51. for 40 to 60d. Sterl. Spain in general, ditto for 4 to 500 Marvedies. Venice, the Crown of 90 Stivers for an un- Milan, ditto for an uncertain Number of Sols of the Empire. Rome, an uncertain N° of Sols for the Crown. Paris, the Piaftre for an uncertain N° Sols; or at fo much per Cent. Piaftres against Crowns. Leghorn, an uncertain Number of Sols for. the Dollar of 6 Livres. Naples, ditto for the Piaftre or Dollar of 9 Tarins. 24 SECT. IN SECT. III. Of Novi. N Novi they keep their Accounts in the fame Way as they do in Genoa; and the Money, Weights, Measures, and Exchanges being the fame, I fhall refer the Reader to Genoa for the fame, and shall only take Notice of the four Fairs which are kept there annually. The firft is called Candlemas Fair, and begins on the first of February. The fecond is called Eafter Fair, which begins on the second of May. The third is called Auguft Fair, which begins on the fourth of Auguft. The fourth is called All Saints Fair, and begins the fecond of November. Thefe Fairs are alfo obferved in Genoa, and they commonly hold 8 Days each, and are fometimes prolonged when the Affairs of the Exchange require it. T SECT. IV. of VENICE. HEY keep their Accounts in Livres, Sols, and Deniers Picoli or Current, reckoning 12 Deniers to a Sol, and 20 Sols to a Livre. But in the Bank, or the Bankers, keep their Accounts in Livres, Sols, and Groffes, reckoning 12 Gross to a Sol, and 20 Sols to a Livre, and every Livre they value at 10 Ducats Banco or 12 Ducats Current. So that the Ducats are of two Sorts; the Bank Ducats are Par with 52 Pence Sterling; and the Ducats Ducats of Picoli or Current, are Par with 40 Pence Sterl. or thereabouts. The Ducat Banco is valued at 6 Livres 4 Sols, or 124 Sols Picoli, or 24 Groffes. The Current, or Picoli Money, is what is ufually bargained for in buying Goods and Merchandize, and is 20 per Cent. worse than Bank Money. The Current Money of Venice. A Venetian Pistole, or of Florence, Spain, and the French Louis d'Or pass for The heavier Sort at about Livres. Sols. A Piftole of Italy, Genoa, Turin, Milan,Į A Chequeen, or Checkeen, about A Ducatoon, at about A Silver Crown, at A Silver Ducat, at 29 30 28 17 led 316 8 10 9.12 6 4 II 15 8 10 2 14 O 18 A Genoa Croisade, called Genocins, is? valued from II Livres 10 Sols to A Milan Philip, at A Teftoon, at I ditto, called a Jule, at A Livre Picoli is worth about 9 d. Sterl. or o 20 There are two Banks in Venice. In the one, Money is paid in Current, and the other in Bank Money; this laft Money being always reckoned better than the former by 20 per Cent. which is the established Agio. The laft of these two Banks is accounted one of the most confiderable in Europe, having a Fund of fome fome Millions of Ducats depofited in it by the Subjects into the Hands of the Republick, who are Sureties for the fame, and pay the Salaries of all the Officers, for whofe Care and Honefty they ftand engaged, and make good all the Monies to the Bank, which may happen to be loft by Fraudulency, Mifmanagement, &c. The Bank is usually shut up four Times in the Year for 20 Days together; viz. on the 20th of March, 20th of June, 20th of September, and on the 20th of December; and it is likewife shut up every Friday, to balance their Books, unless there be an Holiday in the Week; and it is also shut up for 8 or 10 Days at Shrove-tide, and in the Paffion-Week: Nor is the fhutting up of the Bank any Impediment to Trade, for the Merchants may negociate and difpofe of Sums in Bank upon their Exchange, as well as if the Bank was open. Their Measure for Linen and Silks is the Brace, and that is of two Sorts, viz. 5 Braces for Silk make fomething less than 3 English Ells; or 100 Braces make about 57 Ells in London, 98 Ells in Holland, 117 in Hamburgh, 122 in Breslaw, 104 in Dantzick, 117 in Leipfick; and the Brace for Linen is abcut half an English Ell. Their Weights are diftinguished in Grofs and Suttle Weights. Their Grofs Quintal, by which they weigh Brafs, Metal, Feathers, and other lumbering Commodities, is 100 tb Grofs. The other, by which they weigh Silk, Spices, and Drugs, is 100 fb Suttle. Now 100 lb Grofs Weight make 158 lb Suttle Weight, or 106 b in London Avoird. Wt. And And 10 lb Suttle Weight makes about 63 lb of their Gross Weight, or about 65 lb in London. And 100 b Suttle of Venice has been found to make about 61 lb in Hamburgh, 65 in London, 60 lb in Amfterdam, 59 lb in Frankfort. Their Gold and Silver Weights are as follow, viz. 4 Grains is one Carat, 9 Carats (or Saliques) is one Quarta, 4 Quartas one Ounce, and 8 Ounces is one Mark. And 100 lb Troy Weight have been found to make about 116 of the above Marks, and the fame in Verona. Their Wine Measure is the Amphora of 4 Bigorzas, each Bigorza is 4 Quarts, and each Quart 4 Sachies, and each Sachie is 4 Leras; but by Wholesale, the Amphora is 14 Quarts, and the Bigorza 3 Quarts. Oil they fell by Weight and by Measure; the Mizaro is 40 Mero, and the Mero is about 334 Pints by Measure; but by Weight it is more. Corn is fold by the Staro, and is in Quantity about one Sextier of Paris. Of the Exchanges of Venice. The Value of Foreign Bills of Exchange, drawn for Foreign Places and Fairs, fhould be always paid in Bank. No Endorsed Bills can be paid in Bank, but the Perfon in whofe Favour it is drawn, must fend his Correfpondent a Procuration to receive the Money for him, or else he must get his Bill drawn in his Correfpondent's Name. Bills of Exchange are not to be protefted while the Bank is fhut, nor till fix Days after it is opened again. Notwithstanding |