Esca (unit)

The Esca was a small measure of length in the Bordeaux region .

• 1 esca = 12 feet plus 2 inches long

As part of the square measure

• 216 Escas = 1 journee / morning (daily work) = 3 pougnerées
• 72 Escas = 1 Pougnerée = 10,656 square feet (royal) = 296 square feet (thread) = about 1,124.43 square meters

literature

• Carl Günther Ludovici, Johann Christian Schedel: Newly opened Academy of Merchants, or encyclopaedic merchant lexicon of everything worth knowing and non-profit in the broad areas of commercial science and commerce in general. Volume 5, Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1800, p. 387.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ S. Gun: FC Nelkenbrechers pocket book of the latest coin, measure and weight constitution of all countries and places, their types of exchange, Usti, Pespecttage, public banks, trade fairs and other institutions and objects belonging to the action. Gottlieb Haase, Prague 1809, p. 73.