historicalgeogra00psal

the Ijle Formofa.
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THE
CHAP. XXXIL
Of the Money of
the Formofans.
Japannefe have three forts of Money,
whereof fome is made of Gold, and thd
Other two forts are of Silver and Brafs. All thefe
kinds of Money are current in the Ifle oi Formo-
Ja ^ and befides therh , they have fome of Iroh
and Steel.
The higheft piece of Gold that's coin'd at Jdpan
is caird Rochmoo , and is in value nine Copans
and a half A Copan is a piece of coin'd
Gold worth feven Taillos, and aTaillo is a piece
of Silver Coin worth 58 Stivers, according to the
'Dutch way of reckoning, (as Varemm fays,) and
very near worth an Englifl) Crown : But the
Brafs Money is of little value, as the Cax^^ which
are only worth about two Pence of Engl'ijh Money
-, and yet there are half Caxa and quarter
Cax£ •, but this laft kind of Money is only us'd
in Japan arid not in formofa.
But in the IHe formofa^ a Rochmoo is valu'd only
at eight Copan s^ and each Copan at fix TaiU
los , and a TaiUo at forty eight Stivers ^ not
that thefe feveral pieces of Money weigh lefs in
Formofa in proportion to the Silver , for they
are of the fame weight, but becaufe Gold doth
not bear
the fame proportion with Silver in forinofa
as it doth in Japan ^ for Gold is more plentiful
in our Ifland than Silver , and on the conttary
, Silver is more plentiful than Gold in Japan
: And befides them , the For ??w fans have a
piece of Steel Money , which they call Colan ,
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