Baruti

Sources from old books

1638. The merchants mappe of commerce wherein by Lewes Roberts.

Of BARUTI, and the trade thereof.

BARVTI formerly called Iulia Felix, is a famous Mart Towne, yet much inferiour in trade to what it hath formerly beene; neere this towne is that noted Valley where it is said Saint George by killing of a Dragon delivered the Kings daughter, in memoriall •…ereof there was a Castle and Oratory here built and conse∣•…ed to him, and whose name it bore, whose ruines doe yet ap∣•…re, if the Inhabitants may be beleeved; it is now the common •…age for all those Caravans that travell from Aleppo, Damasco 〈◊〉 Ierusalem to Cairo and Mecca, and thereby made a place of •…t concourse of Merchants. It is subject to the grand Signior, 〈◊〉 therefore his coynes in silver and gold are the currant coynes •…reof, partaking of those that are currant in the neighbouring •…untries, as all bordering Townes are found to be. The English •…ve no scale or residence here, but the Venetians who prie with •…re industrie into these parts, finde here a profitable traffique, therefore in the waights and measures thereof wee must sayle by •…eir observations.

The cantar containing 100 Rotolos of Baruti makes s•…tle Venetia waight 750 li. and of grosse 475. li. and of English 502 li. The Roto∣lo makes Venetia s•…le 7½ li. grosse 4 li. 9 ounces, English 5 li. the cantar or 100 Rotolos of Baruti is in Aleppo 96 Rotolos, the common waight and 90½ Rotolos of silke waight.

Measures of Baruti is the pico, 100 whereof makes in Venetia 86 Braces, and the 100 Braces of Venetia of woolen cloth makes in Baruti 112 or 113 pico's, which is in England() yards.

The Towne of Amano lieth also in this Syrophoenicia, and is found to be a Towne of great trade and confluence of Merchants of Arabia, Persia, and Turkie; but because I finde the waights and measures thereof to accord with the same that are found in use in Aleppo, and their coynes the common currant coynes of Turkie, I shall referre the Reader to Aleppo, and the trade thereof.