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WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
Weights and Measures in common use aud their equivalents in Imperial Weights and Measures
CAPACITY.
2 pints = 1 quart
2(-quarts---. 1 Cyprus litre
4 quarts = I galloo
8 gallons---- 1 kile
( 9 quarts = 1
Liquid j
kouza
Measure ] 16 koiizas-= 1
(
load
WEIGHT.
400 drams — 1 oke
l£okes = 1 Cyprus litre
44 okes = 1 cantar
180 okes = I Aleppo cantar
800 okes = 1 ton
LENGTH
12 inches = 1 foot
2 feet = 1 pic
3 feet or l^ pica -= 1 yard
33 pics = 1 chain
2,640 pics= 1 mile
LAND MEASURE:
1 donum — 60 pics or 40 yds. square = 14,400 sq.ft.
or -rV
r
of *-°
acre
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1,936 donums = 1 sq. mile 3*025 donums = 1 acre
The above figures as regards capacity, weight and
length hare been laid down by the Weights and
Measures Law (No. XI. of 1890.) T h e donum is,
however, computed at different sizes by the inhabitants.
in different parts of the Colony, and under the
Interpretation L a w (No. X . of 1901) it is reckoned
as " 1,600 square yards, according to the British
Imperial Standard."