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WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
Weight.*- nnd Measures in c o m m o n r.se and their equivalents in Imperial Weights and Measures
CAPACITY.
2 pints = I quart
2 J quarts = L Cyprus litre
4 quarts = 1 gallon
8 gallons = Ikile
LiQiiid ( 9 quarts = 1 kouza
zas = I load
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Measure 116 k m w
WEIGHT.
400 drams
11 okes
44 okes
180 okes
800 okes
1 oke
1 Cyprus litre
I cantar
1 Aleppo can tar
1 ton
LENGTH
12 inches = 1 toot
2 feet = 1 pic
J ,
f e < J
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t o r
)= I yard
l£ pica/ "*
33 pica = 1 chain
2,640 pica = 1 mile
LAND MEASURE:
1 donum -—* 60 pics or 40 yds. square = 14,-100 sq.ft.
or ->-\ of an acre.
1,936 donums = 1 sq. milft 3*025 donums = 1 acre
The above figures as regards capacity, weight *nd
length ha**e been laid down by the Weights ami
Measures Law (No. X I . of 1890.) The donum is,
however, computed at different sizes by the inhabitai
in different parts of the Colony, and under th«^
Interpretation L a w (No. X . of 1901) it ia reckoi
as " 1,600 square yards, according to the Britiajs
Imperial Standard."
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