The rate of the halide exchange reaction of n-propyl bromide with iodide ion was measured in a series of protic and polar aprotic solvents over a pressure range of ambient to 1500 bar, with a few data to pressures as high as 6000 bar. The rate was fastest, the activation volume the most positive, and the equilibrium constant lowest in the least polar aprotic solvent, 4-methyC2-pentanone, while protic solvents such as low molecular weight alcohols gave much slower rates, more negative activation volumes, and higher equilibrium constants. The partial molal volume of the transition state is calculated in various solvents and shows that the solvent interaction with the small halide ion dominates in determining the very large solvent effect on reactions of this type.