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An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies

PART III
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Betle-nuts 4000 nine pence Currant price, when a Trad.
And now we are discoursing or their Traffick, we will speak a little of their Measures, Weights, and Coin.
[Of their Measures.] First for Measures.

A Rian is a Cubit, which is with them from the bone on the inside of the Elbow to the tip of the fourth Finger.

A Waddo rian is the Carpenters Rule.

It is as much as will reach from one Elbow to the other, the Thumbs touching one the other at the tops, and so stretching out both Elbows.
For their Corn-measures, the least is a Potta, which is to contain as much Grain as a man can hold heaped up in his whole hand palm and fingers and all.

Four Pottas make a lawful or Statute-measure, called Bonder Nellia, signifying the King's measure.


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