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Guinea and Senegambia

The dollar is the principal medium of exchange. At Sierra Leone and Cape Coast Castle, British silver coins are also in circulation, and sometimes five-franc pieces. At the British commissariat stations, bills are usually granted on the treasury of London at 30 days' sight: the rates of exchange at Sierra Leone were lately for Spanish silver, 49 pence per dollar, and for British silver 11/½ per cent. premium, or £100 sterling for £101, 10s. in silver coins.

HOLLAND.

The monetary unit is the florin or guilder, divided into 100 cents, and equal Is. 8d. sterling nearly; the par of exchange being 12 florins per £1. Usance of bills from London and France, 1 month's date; from Spain, Portugal and Italy, 2 months' date; from Germany, 14 days' sight; and from Dantzig, Riga and Konigsberg, 30 days' sight. Days of grace, formerly 6, but now in disuse.