TABLES

OF THE

CHIEF COMMERCIAL WEIGHTS AND MEASURES

OF DIFFERENT COUNTRIES,

REDUCED TO THE LEGAL STANDARDS OF THE UNITED STATES, BOTH COMMON AND METRIC

*Weights of Smyrna.-The following standard, reported by the U. S. Consul at Smyrna, was adopted by the Treasury Department June 7, 1876. (S. S., 2846.)

"In reply I have to state that the most accurate information I have been able to obtain upon the subject has been derived from a table of equivalents in standard weights, prepared several years ago by Edward Purser, chief engineer and director of the Smyrna and Aidin Railway, and which has been adopted by both of the Ottoman railways and by the leading merchants of Smyrna.

"The standard oke of Turkey, by this table, is equal to two pounds and eight hundred and thirty-one thou-. sandths avoirdupois (23), consequently the Smyrna kintal of forty-five okes (45), of three hundred and eighty drachms (380), is equal to one hundred and twenty-one and twenty-five thousandths pounds avoirdupois (121856).

"It is proper that I should mention that the legal kintal of Constantinople is forty-four okes (44) of four hundred drachms, equal to one hundred and twenty-four and five hundred and sixty-four thousandths pounds avoirdupois (1245), as given by Mr. Purser in the table of equivalents above referred to. The Constantinople kintal, however, has not been adopted at Smyrna in wholesale transactions."

TABLE OF MISCELLANEOUS WEIGHTS AND

MEASURES,

WITH EQUIVALENTS.

[The data for the following table are derived principally from Alexander's "Universal Dic tionary of Weights and Measures," published by D. Van Nostrand, New York.]