Corney (unit)

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The corney was a volume and grain measure in Colombo , Ceylon .

  • 1 Corney = 4½ Seers = 18 Chandoos
  • 1 Parrah = 2 Marcals = 16/3 Corney = 25.425 liters
  • 1 Corney = 4.767 liters

literature

  • Society of learned and practical merchants: General encyclopedia for merchants and manufacturers as well as for businessmen in general: or, Complete dictionary. Verlag Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1838, p. 254.
  • Johann Michael Leuchs: The office science. Part: The instruction, containing all incidents in trade, in common and higher business with insight. The latest in money, coins, measurements and weights for merchants, businessmen and newspaper readers. Volume 3, Verlag des Kontors der Allgemeine Handlungs-Zeitung E. Leuchs, Nuremberg 1834 p. 65.