Costal

Costal was a Portuguese measure of volume for charcoal and meaning a sack. The measure was determined by a law of April 24, 1835 and was not replaced by the metric system until 1862.

• 1 costal = 2615.3 Parisian cubic inches = 51.88 liters

literature

• Anton Wach: Non-profit building advisor for all work and material calculations in the building trade in the Halle salt works. Friedrich Tempsky, Prague 1863, p. 414.