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WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
Weights and Measures in c o m m o n use and their equivalents in Imperial Weights and Measures
CAPACITY.
2 pints =
2$ quarts =
4 quarts =
8 gallons =
Liquid ( 9 quarts =
Measure 116 konzas=
WEIGHT.
400 drams —
l|okes =
44 okes =
180 okes =
800 okes =
LENGTH.
12 inches =
2 feet =
3 feetor\_
1^ pics/
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33 pics —
2.640 Dies -=
1 quart
1 Cyprus
1 gallon
Ikile
1 kouza
1 load
• loke
1 Cyprus
1 cantar
1 Aleppo
1 ton
1 foot
1 pic
1 yard
1 chain
1 mile
litre
litre
cantar
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1
1
1
LAND MEASURE:
1 donum — 60 pics or 40 yds. square = 14,400 sq. ft.
or -j*£r of an acre.
1,936 donums = 1 sq. mile 3*025 donums = 1 sere
The above figures as regards capacity, -weight sod
length hare been laid down by the Weights and
Measures L a w (No. X I . of 1890.) The donum ii,
however, computed at different sizes by the inhabitants
in different parts of tbe Colony, and under the
Interpretation L a w (No. J. of 1901) it is reckoned
as " 1,600 square yards, according to the British
Imperial Standard."