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WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
Weights and Measures in common use and their equivalents in Imperial Weights and Measures
CAPACITY.
2 pints = 1 quart
2Jquarts---s 1 Cyprus litre
4 quarts =•* 1 gallon
8 gallons-*-*- I kile
( 9 quarts *** 1
Liquid )
konza
Measure ] 16 koiizas*-*-* 1
(
load
WEIGHT.
400 drains -— 1 oke
1$ okes =s I Cyprns litre
44 okes -*= I cantar
180 okes = 1 Aleppo cantar
800 okes = 1 ton
LENGTH
12 inches = I foot
2 feet -*-* 1 pic
3 feet or 1^ pics *=•* 1 yard
33 pics = 1 chain
2,640 picsss 1 mile
LAND MEASUBE:
1 donum — 60 pics or 40 yds. square a= 14,400 sq. ft,
or -rVr °->
a n
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cre
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1,936 donums -*• 1 sq. mile 3-025 donums = 1 acre
The above figures as regards capacity, weight and
length have been laid down by the Weights ud
Measures L a w (No. XI. of 1890.) The donum U,
however, computed at different sizes by the inhabitants
in different parts of the Colony, and under tin
Interpretation L a w (No. X of 1901) it is reckoned
as " 1,600 square yards, according to the British
Imperial Standard."