SILVER. GOLD. A TABLE for reducing Shillings and Pence into Cents and Mills. EXAMPLE.--Reduce 3s. 6d. to Cents and Mills. Look for 3s. at th head of the column, and 6 under pence at the left hand fide; then caft your eye along in that line till you come to the 3s. column, you have 58 Cents 3 Mills, the answer. ATABLE in which the gold coins of A TABLE, in which the gold coins Great-Britain and Portugal are reduced to an equivalent value in dollars and ceats. gr. ct. g. c. pwt dl.ct pwt dol, ct. 1 313 48 1 0,89 11 9 78 France and Spain are reduced to equivalent value in dollars and cents. Dollar Half Dollar Quart French Crown, at One Dollar and Ten Cents Quarter Eagle, at Two Dollars and Fifty Cents, AMERICAN STANDARD OF MONEY. Approved by as of Congress, April 10, 1806. Eagle, valued at Ten Dollars, muft weigh pwt g 11 0 5 1 2 19 17 0 8 11 40 18 1 LATE PRINCIPAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS, &c. IN EIGHT VOLUMES. ILLUSTRATED WITH PLATES. VOL. II. PUBLISHED BY J. BIOREN, & T. L. PLOWMAN, PHILADELPHIA; MUNROE 1805. 26X390 CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME Page 1 Chap. II. The second Assyrian empire, both of Nineveh and Sect. III. The first campaign of Cyrus, who goes to succour his uncle Cyazares against the Babylonians Sect. IV. The expedition of Cyaxares and Cyrus against the Sect. V. The battle of Thymbria, between Cyrus and Crœsus Sect. VI. The taking of Sardis and of Crœsus Art. II. The history of the besieging and taking of Babylon Sect. I. Predictions of the principal circumstances relating to 1. The prediction of the Jewish captivity at Babylon, and the ib.. 2. The causes of God's wrath against Babylon 3. The decree pronounced against Babylon. Predictions of the 4. Cyrus called to destroy Babylon, and to deliver the Jews 5. God gives the signal to the commanders, and to the troops. Sect. II. A description of the taking of Babylon Sect. IV. What followed upon the taking of Babylon Sect. I. Cyrus takes a journey into Persia. At his return from thence to Babylon, he forms a plan of govern- ment for the whole empire. Daniel's credit and power 117 Sect. II. The beginning of the united empire of the Per- Sect. I. Their monarchical form of government. The respect ib. |