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Rh that when Dr. Fryer and the Rev. John Ovington changed their money in 1673 and 1689, they got as good value for it as Bernier in 1666, or Manucci in 1697. So great a discrepancy as is involved in Mr. Keene's estimate of the French livre is clearly inadmissable.

The fiscal unit of the Native returns is the dám, and forty dáms went to the rupee: of this there is no dispute. The European returns are given in rupees, which may be taken, as I have said, on the average at 2s. 3d., or in livres of about the value of 1s. 6d. Reducing dáms to rupees, and rupees and livres to pounds, in accordance with these values, we obtain the following returns of the annual revenue for different years, expressed in round figures:—

The preceding figures show a reasonable and