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SONNERAT. _Voyage aux Indes Orientales_. Paris, 1782. SPRENGER. _Post und Reise Routen des Orients_. Leipzig, 1864. ST. MARTIN, M.J. _Memoires Historiques et Geographiques sur l'Armenie, &c._ Paris, 1818-19. SYKES, MAJOR PERCY MOLESWORTH. _Ten Thousand Miles in Persia, or Eight Years in Iran_. London, 1902, 8vo. Chap, xxiii. _Marco Polo's Travels in Persia_. ---- _Recent Journeys in Persia_. (_Geog. Journal_, X, 1897, pp. 568-597.) TEIXEIRA, _Relaciones de_ Pedro, _del Origen Descendencia y Succession de los Reyes de Persia, y de Harmuz, y de un Viage hecho por el mismo aotor, &c._ En Amberes, 1670. TIMKOWSKI. _Travels, &c._, edited by Klaproth. London, 1827. UZZANO. See _Della Decima_. VARTHEMA'S _Travels_. By Jones and Badger. Hak. Soc., 1863. VIGNE, G.T. _Travels in Kashmir, &c._ London, 1842. VIN. BELL., VINC. BELLOV. Vincent of Beauvais' _Speculum Historiale, Speculum Naturale, &c._ VISDELOU. Supplement to D'Herbelot. 1780. WILLIAMS'S _Middle Kingdom_. 3rd. Ed. New York and London, 1857. WILLIAMSON, Rev. A. _Journeys in N. China, &c._ London, 1870. WEBER'S _Metrical Romances of the XIIIth, XIVth, and XVth Centuries_ Edinburgh, 1810. WITSEN. _Noord en Oost Tartaryen_. 2nd Ed. Amsterdam, 1785. APPENDIX K.--_Values of certain Moneys, Weights, and Measures, occurring in this Book_. FRENCH MONEY. The LIVRE TOURNOIS of the period may be taken, on the mean of five valuations cited in a footnote at p. 87 of vol. i., as equal in _modern silver value_ to ... 18.04 _francs_. Say English money ... 14_s._ 3.8_d._ The LIVRE PARISIS was worth one-fourth more than the _Tournois_,[1] and therefore equivalent in silver value to ... 22.55 _francs_. Say English money ... 17_s._ 10.8_d._ (Gold being then to silver in relative value about 12:1 instead of about 15:1 as now, one-fourth has to be added to the values based on silver in equations with the gold coin of the period, and one-fifth to be deducted in values based on gold value. By oversight, in vol. i. p. 87, I took 16:1 as the present gold value, and so exaggerated the value of the livre Tournois as compared with gold.) M. Natalis de Wailly, in his recent fine edition of Joinville, determines the valuation of these _livres_, in the reign of St. Lewis, by taking a mean between a value calculated on the present value of silver, and a value calculated on the present value of gold,[2] and his result is: LI
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