PRUYM or Prym, does not amount to more than 5,000,000, and, by means of a sinking fund, is gradually diminishing, and will soon be extinct. The money is coined in Berlin, Breslau, and Düsseldorf. The gold coins are double, single, and half Frederick William d'ors, valued at 10 d., 5 d. and 2½ d. reichs-thaler. The silver coins are the thaler, the half thaler, and the third, sixth, and twelfth of the thaler. The copper and mixed metal coins are groschen, sechser, drier, and pfennige. In the old provinces accounts are kept in dollars (thaler), groschen, and pfennigen. Twelve pfennigen make a grosch, and twenty-four groschen a dollar. The value of the dollar in exchange with London varies from three shillings to three shillings and twopence. In the provinces the accounts are kept in various denominations of money, but they are easily reduced into florins or gulden, three of which are equal to two dollars, and the value of which in exchange with London is about two shillings.
The legal long measure of Prussia is the Berlin ell of two feet, which contains 25½ths Rhenish inches, or 296 French lines. In the distant provinces a local measure of length prevails, which differs in each. The Prussian mile is 23,685
feet, or nearly the same as the German geographical mile, or one fifteenth of a degree of latitude, being somewhat less than four and a half English miles. The land measure is the Magdeburg morgen of 100 roods, each rood of twelve feet; and the foot is about one seventh longer than the English; thus the morgen is nearly two thirds of an English acre. The dry measure is the Berlin scheffel of 2758½ Parisian cubic inches, or nearly one bushel, one peck, and one gallon, English measure. The liquid measures are more various than any other, and differ in every province; but as they are all legally reducible to Berlin measure, we give that only, viz. an oxhoft is six eimer, an eimer two ankers, an anker thirty-two quarts, the quart two nöseln. The quart contains fifty-eight Parisian cubic inches, or nearly one ninth less than the English quart. The weights of commerce are the shipslast, containing twelve shipshounds; the shipshound contains 280 common pounds; the centner, of 110 pounds, is divided into light and heavy stones, having ten of the former and five of the latter; the pound is divided into two marks, the mark into sixteen loth, the loth into four quentchen, and the quentchen into four pfennigen.