Carse (unit of measure)

Carse was a French volume and grain measure for dry goods. It was quite different in size. The measure was widespread in Sully and Gien in central France.

Sully 1 Carse = 806 Parisian cubic inches = 15.181816 liters
Gien 1 Carse = 806 Paris cubic inches (also 839 Paris cubic inches = 16.642 liters)
1 carse = 256.79 Parisian cubic inches = 3 3/5 measure (Wiener) = 5.0937 liters

literature

Johann Georg Krünitz, Friedrich Jakob Flörke, Heinrich Gustav Flörke, Johann Wilhelm David Korth, Carl Otto Hoffmann, Ludwig Kossarski: Economic Encyclopedia. Volume 45, Joachim Pauli, Berlin 1789, pp. 741, 762

Individual evidence

↑ Smaller Brockhaus'sches Konversations-Lexikon for manual use. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1854, p. 748
↑ Jurende's patriotic pilgrims: business and entertainment book for all provinces of the Austrian imperial state: consecrated to all friends of culture from the teaching, military and nutritional class, especially all nature and fatherland friends. Volume 21, Winiker, Brünn 1834, p. 42

[1] Smaller Brockhaus'sches Konversations-Lexikon for manual use. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1854, p. 748

[2] Jurende's patriotic pilgrims: business and entertainment book for all provinces of the Austrian imperial state: consecrated to all friends of culture from the teaching, military and nutritional class, especially all nature and fatherland friends. Volume 21, Winiker, Brünn 1834, p. 42