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WEIGHT.

English Standard Weights are employed in the Colony, and also the following Chinese :-

1 Fan (candareen) 0.133 oz. avoirdupois.

1 Tsin (mace)

= 0.133

97

"

1 Leung (tacl)

1* **

*

1 Kan (catty)

1 Tâm (pieul)

1 lbs.

郭量

133

tt

*

MEASURES OF LENGTH.

English Standard Measures are employed in the Colony, and also the following Chinese:

| Chek (foot) oqnal to 141⁄2 English inches, divided into 10 Tsün or inchos, and oach inch into 10 Fax or

ionth.