Pecul

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The Pecul , also Pekul , Picul or Pic for short , was a measure of weight in back India and in the Chinese canton . This is the name for the Chinese unit Tan (擔Pinyin : dàn, simplified: 担) , which is widely used among foreign merchants . It was the " hundredweight " of the regions.

literature

  • Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 230

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b 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 E. Leuchs and Komp., Nuremberg 1834, pp. 168, 187
  2. a b c d e JP Sanger: Census of the Philipine Island . Volume 4, US Bureau of the Census, Washington 1905, p. 449.