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Across the Zodiac

CHAPTER IX - MANNERS AND CUSTOMS
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The _stolta_, again, is about 600 yards square, or 360,000 square yards, 144 times the _stalta_.

The highest note, so to speak, in circulation represents this last area; but all calculations are made in _staltau_, or twelfths thereof.

The _stalta_ will purchase about six ounces of gold.

Notes are issued for the third, fourth, and twelfth parts of this: values smaller than the latter are represented by a token coinage of square medals composed of an alloy in which gold and silver respectively are the principal elements.

The lowest coin is worth about threepence of English money.
Stopping at the largest public building in the city, a central hexagon with a number of smaller hexagons rising around it, we entered one of the latter, each side of which might be some 30 feet in length and 15 in height.


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