CURRANTS also signify a smaller kind of grapes brought principally from Zant and Cephalonia. They are gathered off the bushes, and laid to dry in the sun, and so put up in large butts. They are opening and pectoral, but are more used in the kitchen, than in medicine.
Currants, the hundred weight pay on exportation 1 l. 2s. 1½d. and draw back on exportation 1 l. 0s. 7½d. If imported in Venetian ships, they pay the 112 lb. 1 l. 3s. 7½d. and draw back 1 l. 1s. 8½d. In other foreign bottoms they pay 1 l. 7s. 4½d. and draw back 1 l. 5s. 6½d.