Tonking
or TONQUIN, since 1884 a French possession, is the N. E. portion of the Indo-Chinese peninsula, bordering on China. Area, 119,660 square miles; pop. 6,200,000. Europeans, 6,000. Capital Hanoi, also of all French and Indo- China. The name has been used for nations, nations, and since 1872-prior to which employed the tonnage of British naval ships has been based on the displacement principle. The United States navy has date the B. O. M. rule was the only one also adopted displacement tonnage; in fact, it is all but universally employed. "Freight" tonnage, a system of measurement commonly employed in connection with stowage by merchants and shipowners, although it has no legal capacity, is simply a measure of cubical capacity. A freight ton, or "unit of measurement cargo," simply means 40 cubic feet of space available for cargo, and is therefore two-fifths of a register ton.
TONNAGE the mendicant and cloistered orders allow only a narrow strip of hair to grow round the head, all above and below being In connection with yachts tonnage is measured by special rules for the purpose history, the shaving of the crown in a of regulating time allowances in racing. circle, which is a distinguishing mark of These rules are numerous and varied clerks in the Roman Church. Most of has hitherto been most generally adopted of the diocese, in the latter by the head tions employing them, but the rule which only a narrow strip of hair to grow has hitherto been most generally adopted in Great Britain is known as the "Thames Rule," and is simply a slight modification from the B. O. M. tonnage.