Cavary
Cavary was an English field and area measure in Madras , the capital of the British Presidency of Madras in East India .
- 1 Cavary = 24 Grounds = 57.6 square feet = 53.51 ares
- 1 Ground / Mauney = 2400 square feet in the dimensions 60 × 40 feet (engl.) = 222,960 square meters
literature
- Georg Thomas Flügel: Course list continued as a manual for coin, measure, weight and Customs. Publisher LF Huber Verlag der Jäger'schen Buch-, Papier- und Landkartenhandlung, Frankfurt am Main 1859, p. 174
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johann Michael Leuchs: The office science third part: The complete money, coin, measure and weight. Verlag E. Leuchs and Komp., Nuremberg 1834, Volume 3, p. 135