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the grain into 20 mites,the mite into 24 droits,the droit into 20 periots,the periot into 24 blanks.
The dealers in wool have likewise a particular set ofweights, viz., the sack, weigh, tod, stone, and clove; theproportions of which are as follow :
the sack contains 2 weighs,the weigh 6^ tods,the tod 2 stones,the stone 2 cloves,the clove 7 pounds.
Also 12 sacks make a last, or 4368 pounds.
Farther,
56 lb. of old hay, or 60 lb. new hay, make a truss.
40 lb. of straw make a truss.
36 trusses make a load of hay or straw.
14 lb. make a stone.
5. lb. of glass a stone.
Other nations have also certain weights peculiar to them-selves : thus, Spain has its arrobas, containing 25 Spanish pounds, or one-fourth of the common quintal : its quintalmacho, containing 150 pounds, or one-half of the commonquintal, or 6 arrobas ; its adarme, containing one-sixteenthof its ounce. And for gold, it has its castillan, or one-liundredth of a pound; and its tomin, containing 12 grains,or one-eighth of a castillan. The same are in use in theSpanish West Indies .
Portugal has its arroba, containing 32 Lisbon arratals, orpounds. Savary also mentions its faratelle, containing 2Lisbon pounds ; and its rottolis, containing about 12 pounds.And for gold, its chego, containing 4 carats. The same areused in the Portuguese East Indies.
Italy, and particularly Venice , have their' migliaro, con-taining 4 mirres; the mirre containing 30 Venice pounds ;the saggio, containing a sixth part of an ounce. Genoa hasfive kinds of weights, viz., large weights,- whereby all mer-chandizes are weighed at the custom-houses; cash weightsfor piasters, and: cOther specie ; the cantara, or quintal, forthe coarsest commodities ,; the large' balance for raw silks,and the small balance for the fine commodities. Sicily hasits rottolo, equal to 32^ pounds of Messina.
Germany, Flanders, Holland, the Hanse-towns, Sweden ,Denmark, Poland , &c., have their schippondt, which, atAntwerp and Hamburgh, is 300 pounds ; at Lubeck , 320;and at Konigsberg, 400 pounds. In Sweden the schip-pondt for copper is 320 pounds ; and the schippondt for pro-visions 400 pounds. At Riga and Revel, the schippondt is400 pounds; at Dantzic, 340 pounds ; in Norway , 300pounds ; at Amsterdam , 300, containing 20 lysponts, eachweighing 15 pounds. In Moscow they weigh their largecommodities by the bercheroct, or berkewits, containing 400of their pounds. They have also the poet, or poede, con-taining 40 pounds, or one-tenth of the bercheroct.
In order to show the proportion of the several weightsused throughout Europe , we shall add a reduction of them toone standard, viz., the London pound.
Proportion of the Weights of the principal Places in Europe .
The 100 lb. of England, Scotland, and Ireland , areequal to
lb. oz.
91 8 of Amsterdam, Paris , &c.
88 0 of Rouen , the viscounty weight.
106 0 of Lyons, the city weight.
90 9 of Rochelle.
lb. oz.
107 11 of Toulouse and Upper Languedoc.
113 0 of Marseilles or Provence.
81 7 of Geneva.
93 5 of Hamburgh.
89 7 of Frankfort, &c.
96 1 of Leipsic, &c.
137 4 of Genoa.
132 11 of Leghorn.
153 11 of Milan.
152 Oof Venice.
154 10 of Naples.
Proportion of the Weights of several Places in Ear0f ecompared with those of Amsterdam .
The 1001b. of Amsterdam , are equal tolb.
105 of Antwerp.
151 of Bologna.
103 of Bremen.
125 of Breslaw.
105 of Cadiz.
107 of Copenhagen.
97 of Dublin and Edinburgh.
169 of Naples.
109 of Riga.
146. of Rome.
110 of Stettin.
Comparison of English and Foreign Weights.English Weights.
Troy Weight.
lb. oz. drs. scrup. grains, grammes.
1 = 12 = 96 = 283 = 5760 = 372.961 = 8 = 24 = 480 = 31.081 = 3 = 60 = 3.885
1 = 20 = 1.395
1 = 0.06475
Avoirdupois Weight.lb. oz. drs. grains. grammes.
1 = 16 = 256 = 7000 = 453.25
1 = 16 = 437.5 = 28.32
1 = 27.975 = 1.81
71 lb. or grs. English Troy = 74 lb. or grs. German apo^’ ecaries’ weight.
1 oz. Nuremburg , medic, weight = 7 dr. 2 scru. 9 6 raEnglish .
1 mark Cologne = 7 oz. 2 dwt. 4 gr. English Troy.