Gerouin

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Gerouin was a measure of weight in Cairo and corresponded to the hundredweight for the so-called heavy goods.

Cairo 1 Gerouin = 270 Rotons = 1 hundredweight (Wiener = 56 kilograms) plus 84 pounds (Wiener = 560 grams ) = about 60.7 kilograms
Marseille 1 Gerouin = 110 rotons (about 108 pounds) = about 60.5 kilograms

literature

Jurende's patriotic pilgrim: business and entertainment book for all provinces of the Austrian imperial state: consecrated to all friends of culture from the teaching, military and nutritional class, especially to all nature and fatherland friends. Volume 21, Winiker, Brünn 1834, p. 123