Sawyers Measurement. 179 



without sawyers altogether, especially where there 

 is anything approaching a scarcity of labour. 



The charge for sawing in Ceylon is so much per 

 hundred superficial feet. 1 In Western India the 

 cost is so much per candy ; a candy being equal to 

 12 coles, and a cole to 24 Malayalim inches, or 28^ 

 inches English. 



The following is the most simple way of 

 measuring sawyer's work in Ceylon, where the 

 English terms of measurement are in use. Take, 

 for example, a timber 6 inches by 5, and 21 feet 

 in length ; add 6 to 5 = 1 1 ; then multiply 1 1 by 

 21 = 231 ; next divide 231 by 12, and the result 

 is arrived at, or say 19 feet 3 inches. Or, take a 

 board 9 inches wide, I inch thick, and 24 feet 

 long ; here, it will be observed, the thickness, being 

 no more than one inch, is not counted ; multiply 9 

 by 24 = 216 ; divide by 12 = 18 feet, the correct 

 result. 



In Malabar the method differs, the cuts of the 



saw, and not the dimensions of the pieces sawn, 



being calculated ; the result is arrived at as follows : 



A log of timber having been intersected by 6 cuts, 



say II inches (Malayalim) in width, by 5^ coles in 



length; n must be multiplied by 5^ = 57! ; 



multiply this again by 6 = 346^ ; divide by 24 (to 



bring the sum into coles) =14 and io over, and 



1 I2J. to 14$. in my time. AUTHOR. 



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