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| Cathay and the way thither : vol.2 | |
| 中国および中国への道 : vol.2 |
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引用情報
296 NOTICES OF THE LAND ROUTE TO CATHAY, ETC.
CHAPTER III.
Comparison of the weights and measures of Cathay and of Tana.
| The maundl of Sara = in Genoa weight | lbs. 6 | oz. 2 | |||
| 17 | Organci |
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| 3 | 9 |
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| Oltrarre |
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| 3 | 9 |
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| Armalec | „ |
| 2 | 8 |
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| Camexu | 77 | 17 | 2 | 0 |
Tana on the Black Sea.
At Tana, as shall next be shown, they use a variety of weights and measures, viz. :
The cantar, which is that of Genoa. The great pound2 = 20 lbs. Genoese.
The ruotolo,3 of which 20 = 1 great pound.
The little pound, which is the Genoese pound.
The tochetto, of which 12 = 1 great pound.
The saggio, of Which 45 = 1 sommo. The picco.4
Wax, ladanum,5 iron, tin, copper, pepper, ginger, all coarser
1 Mena, representing the Arabic man, I suppose from Greek and Lat. mina, diffused over all the East with an infinite variety of values from below two pounds up to one hundred pounds. We have Anglicized it in India into mound. The man of Ghazan Khan, which may be meant here, was of 260 drachms.
2 This should be equal to thirty, not twenty, Genoese pounds, as is shown by passages at pp. 31, 37, of Pegolotti_ Is this great pound the origin of the Russian good?
3 The can taro and ruotolo both survive in Southern Italy and Sicily, the former derived from the kantcLr and the latter from the rithl of the Arabs, though the first of these words, and perhaps both, must have come to the Arabic from the Latin.
4 The pik is still the common cloth measure in the Levant. It seems generally to be about twenty-eight inches.
5 Ladanum or labdanum (the lcidin of the Arabs), is a gum resin derived from the Cistus creticus, which grows in the Islands of the Levant. It is exported in solid pieces of cylindrical and other forms. A long description of the mode of collecting it, etc., will be found in Tournefort, Voyage du Levant, i, 84, et seq. According to Herodotus ladanum was derived "from a most inodorous place," viz., the beards of he-goats, which collected it from the bushes in browsing (Rawlinson's Herod., bk. iii, 113).
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