Cask (unit)

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The cask was an American volume measure for liquids and also a measure in Mauritius .

America : 1 cask = 32 gallons = 1.21 hectoliters
Mauritius: 1 cask = 60 gallons (English old wine measure)

literature

R. Klimpert: Lexicon of coins, measures, weights, counting methods and time sizes. Verlag C. Regenhardt, Berlin 1896, p. 46.
Peter Kurzweil: The Vieweg unit dictionary. Friedrich Vieweg and Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-528-06987-2 , p. 70.