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Burma or Ava

= Money is reckoned decimally as in China. No coin is minted. The circulating medium is composed chiefly of gold and silver bullion, which is estimated generally by the tical or kiat equal 251 troy grains. The taong or cubit = 19.1 Imp. inches; the taing or league of 1000 tas or bamboos, or 7000 taongs = 2 miles 193 yds. The ten or basket of rice of 4 saits or 64 sales = 16 vis, or 57.36 lbs. avoirdupois, but is commonly reckoned at 1/2 cwt. I paiktha or vis of 100 kiats = 3.59 lbs. avoirdupois, but is commonly reckoned at 31/3 lbs.; and the candy of 150 vis at 500 lbs. avoirdupois (see INDIA). CANADA.

The integer of account is now the dollar of 100 cents, equal at par to 4s. 11/3d. sterling, or $486.66c. = £100, as in the United States. The currency consists almost wholly of bank-notes, and of British and American coins. Measures and weights same as in Britain: though in some places the old English measures of capacity are still in use. The hundredweight of 112 lbs. and the ton of 2240 lbs. have been abolished and declared to be 100 and 2000 lbs. avoird. The minot, sometimes used in Lower Canada, is an old French measure, 90 of which are reckoned at 100 Winchester bushels; the true proportion, however, being 90 to 98.