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Dutch Islands

St. Eustatious; St. Martin; Curaçao.

Accounts are stated in dollars of 8 reals, or 48 stivers, currency. The Spanish dollar is reckoned at II bits.

Measures and weights chiefly those of the old system o. Amsterdam: in Curaçao the Spanish vara is also employed.

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