Carpets of all sorts, some of silk and gold, silk and silver, half silk, half cotton, &c. The silver monies of Persia are the _abacee, mahamoody, shakee_, and _biftee_, the rest being of copper, like the _tangas_ and _pisos_ of India. The _abacee_ weighs two _meticals_, the _mahmoody_ is half an abacee, and the _shahee_ is half a _mahamoody_. In the dollar or rial of eight there are thirteen shahees.[160] In a shahee there are two _biftees_ and a half, or ten cashbegs, one _biftee_ being four _cashbegs_, or two _tangs_. The weights differ in different places; two _mahans_ of Tauris being only one of Ispahan, and so of the _batman_. The measure of length, for silks and other stuffs, is the same with the pike of Aleppo, which we judge to be twenty-seven English inches. [Footnote 160: Assuming the Spanish dollar at 4s. 6d. sterling, the shahee ought therefore to be worth about 4d. 1-6, the mahamoody,8d. 1-3, and the abecee, 1s. 4d. 2-3.--E.] John Crowther returned into India, and Richard Steel went to England by way of Turkey, by the following route. Leaving Ispahan on the 2d December, 1615, he went five p. to a serail. The 3d, eight p. to another serail. The 4th, six p. to a village. The 5th, seven p. to _Dreag_. The 6th, seven p. to a serail. The 7th, eight p. to _Golpigan_, [Chulpaigan.] The 8th, seven p. to _Curouan_. The 9th, seven p. to _Showgot_. The 10th, six p. to _Saro_, [Sari.] The 11th, eight p. to _Dissabad_. The 12th, twelve p. to a fair town called _Tossarkhan_, where he rested some days, because the country was covered deep with snow. The 15th, six p. to _Kindaner_. The 16th, eight p. to _Sano_. The 17th to _Shar nuovo_, where I was stopped by the _daiga_; but on shewing him letters from the vizier, he bade me depart in the name of God and of Ali. The 18th we passed a bridge where all travellers have to give an account of themselves, and to pay a tax of two _shakees_ for each camel. The 19th we came to _Kassam-Khan_, the last place under the Persian government, and made a present to the governor, that he might give me a guard to protect me from the Turkomans, which he not only did, but gave me a licence to procure provisions free at his villages without payment, which yet I did not avail myself of.