into fishes of any kind. It should father seem that all-bountiful Providence has created them for the sole purpose of affording sustenance to those fishes, which, in consequence of their remaining, perhaps altogether, remote from every shore, would, but for these larvae, (as we must, for want of knowing better, call them,) be unable to subsist.

Persons arriving from Europe, rarely have any but British coins; in the disbursing of which many impositions will be practised. The best mode is to tender the whole, without delay, to some of the English agency houses, who will readily pay their full value; it being often a matter of difficulty to obtain a few guineas for their friends who maybe about to embark, with- out paying an exorbitant sum to the shroff's, or native bankers, who can acquire them only from such person's as import with the Indiamen, and are rarely acquainted with their real value.

Accounts are generally kept in current rupees, which are considered,(though in themselves nominal, there being no such coin,) the standard to which all other denominations of money should be reduced: this is, in fact, the application of one term, whereby all others are to be appreci-ated. It is often found useful to have a second column, in every folio, wherein to note the cor-responding amounts in sicca rupees, they being in general use. The infinite variety, both of gold