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Foreign Medicinal Weights

pounds) = 12.29 litres, or 21 pints 12 ounces
pounds) = 12.29 litres, or 21 pints 12 ounces

The following are divided as our Apothecaries' weight: The pound of Austria weighs 6482.42 grains; Bavaria, 5556.24; Holland, differs from the pharmaceutical. The civil 5787.75; Lubec, 5697.09; Nuremberg (German pound of Bavaria and mark of Vienna are pound), 5522.96; Poland, 5533.25; Prussia, each about 19 avoirdupois ounces. That of 5113.99; Sweden, 5498.01; Venice (sottile), Holland is the French kilogram, or 12 4649.17. grains more than 2 pounds 34 ounces avoirdupois. The mark is half a kilogram. The Coburg commercial pound is nearly 18 ounces avoirdupois.

The division of the following differs in the scruple being divided into 24 grains: Bologna, 5026.32; Lucca, 5162.67; Modena, 5254.61; Parma, 5062.35; Portugal, 5312.23; Rome, The unit of the British India system of 5233.25; Spain, 5325.84; Tuscany, 5240.49; weights is the tola, equal to 180 Troy grains. Piedmont (Turin), 5123.49. The Naples 32 tolas are equal to 1 pound Troy. The pound contains 5490.63 Troy grains; the ounce maund is equal to 100 Troy ounces. 6055. Foreign Money, Weights, and Measures, Compared with American. MONEY.

Name of Coin.

LENGTH.

Value in Name Length American of in Dollars, Mea- Inches, Gold. sure. English.

Sovereign 4.80 Foot 12 Dollar 1.00 Foot 12 LIQUID.

WEIGHT.

Name Contents of Measure.

Name Ounces in Cubic Inches. of Avoird.

Weight.

England America Gallon 2774 1 Avoird. 16.

Gallon 231 Pound 16.

Austria Florin .48 Foot 12.45 Eimer 3452 Pound 19.76 Denmark Dollar .53 Foot 12.35 Anker 2355 Pound 17.65 France Franc .19 Metre 39.37 Litre 61.028 Kilogran 35.28 Holland Florin .40 Foot 11.14 Anker 2331 Pound 35.28 Portugal Milreis 1.12 Foot 12.96 Almude 1040 Pound 16.19 Prussia Dollar .70 Foot 12.36 Eimer 4200 Pound 16.51 Russia Rouble .79 Foot 12 Veddras 752 Pound 14.44 Spain Dollar 1.00 Foot 11.03 Arroba 978 Pound 16.23 Sweden Foot 12 Eimer 4794 Pound 15.

The rate of exchange varies, but the value of money is taken, reckoning silver at $1.20 per ounce.

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