Markal

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The / The Markal, also Marcal or Mercal and Mercois, was a grain measure in the French-East Indian Pondichery , on the island of Ceylon and the Coromandel coast . The measure was volume and weight measure and very different in values.

Volume measure

  • 1 Marcal = 2.9913 liters (around 3 liters)
  • 1 Marcal = 8 Puddies = 64 Ollucks = 619.56 Parisian cubic inches = 12.29 liters
  • Madras : 400 Marcals = 80 Parahs = 1 Garce = 4916 liters
  • 12 markals = 1 gallon = 1809.557 Parisian cubic inches = 35.895 liters
  • 16 markals = 1 doba (measure for oil and butter) = 47.856 liters
  • 24 markals = 1 canam (measure for oil seeds) = 71.79 liters

Weight measure

  • Pondichery: 600 Marcals = 1 Garce ≈ 12 pounds (French) of wheat

See also

Note: The doba mentioned here is not the same as Doba (unit) , Hungary section.

literature

  • Johann Christian Nelkenbrecher : General pocket book of measurement, weight and coin studies, the exchange, money and funds course, etc. for bankers and merchants. Sander'sche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1842, p. 211.
  • Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 2, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 964.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Johann Georg Krünitz : Economic Encyclopedia, or general system of the state, city, house and Agriculture. Joachim Pauli, Berlin 1789, p. 227.
  2. ↑ Fr. Silber: The coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world individually calculated according to their values ​​and proportions to all German coins, measures and weights, along with details of the trading venues and their accounting conditions. Moritz Ruhl Verlag, Leipzig 1861, p. 236.