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Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846

Note 49 — Chapter XXVIII

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A ghubgha is a measure of six feet long, and measures pieces of cotton six feet long (and three inches broad), from which circumstance the currency is thus named. Four ghubghas form a rottol or pound, and thirty rottols are of the value of a Spanish dollar. This was the exchange in 1845.

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