Pecul
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.
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Amboina Island 1 Pecul = 100 Catti = 59.052 kilograms
- 28 pecul = 1 coyan
- Batavia 1 pecul = 59.072 kilograms
- Canton and Singapore 1 pecul = 100 catti = 60.478 kilograms
- Siam 1 pecul = 50 catty = 1000 tale = 80,000 tical = 58.507 kilograms
- Manila like Canton
- Prince Wales Island 1 pecul = 100 catty = 60.472 kilograms
- Philippines 10 Chinantas = 1 picul = 62,550 kilograms
- Bohol : 1 pecul = 66 kilograms
- Ilocos Sur : 1 pecul = 63,000 kilograms
- Iloilo : 1 pecul = 60.262787 kilograms
- Leyte : 1 pecul = 69.012 kilograms
- Sorsogon : 1 pecul = 39,000 kilograms
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
- ^ 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
- ↑ a b c d e JP Sanger: Census of the Philipine Island . Volume 4, US Bureau of the Census, Washington 1905, p. 449.