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Cape Town

Money is reckoned in this colony in sterling; accounts are kept in pounds, shillings and pence. The currency consists of a small quantity of British coins, and of notes issued by various joint stock banks with branches in the chief towns. Bills on London, Calcutta, Bombay, etc., are drawn at 30 days' sight. 132½ Dutch ells = 100 yards; 493/4 morgen = 100 acres. 1000 Cape feet = 1.033 British Imperial feet. The leaguer of 4 ahms = I52 English wine or 152 English wine or 126.63 Imp. gall.; the muid or mudde of 4 schepels = 3.06 Imp. bushels; and 91% Dutch lbs. = 100 lbs. avoird. The Dutch measures and weights, however, have in most cases been superseded by British, CEYLON.