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matches, and the distribution of premiums a- 

 mong those who excel upon these occasions. 



SECT. II. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. 



THE measure by weight used in this county 

 is chiefly of three kinds, commonly known by 

 the names of English, Dutch or Amsterdarrij 

 and Tron. The English pound contains 16 oz. 

 the Dutch pound i 7^- oz. nearly, and the Tron 

 pound 22 oz., all Averdupoise weight. The 

 stone of each denomination contains 16 of their 

 respective pounds. 



Flour, bread, pot-barley in retail, and all kinds 

 of groceries, are sold by the English weight : 

 Flax, wool, butter, cheese, tallow, hides, hay, 

 are sold by Tron weight : Butcher- meat, in the 

 district of Kirkaldy, is sold by the Tron weight ; 

 but in the other districts by the Dutch weight. 

 Meal of every kind is sold here, as in all the 

 other counties of Scotland, by the Dutch weight, 

 liut though meal be generally sold by weight, 

 yet, as it was anciently sold by measure, the old 

 terms are still used. Thus, we talk of a boll, a 

 firlot, a peck, a lippie of meal. Eight stone is 

 the boll, 2 stone the firlot, 8 lib, the peck, and 

 2 lib. the lippie. 



Grain is understood to be sold by the Lin- 

 lithgow measure ; wheat, beans, pease, and rye, 

 by the standard firlot containing 2 1 ^ Scots pints, 

 each pint 103,405 cubic inches; and oats, bar- 

 ley, and malt, by the firlot of 31 Scots pints. 

 Two Linlithgow bolls, wheat measure, is about 

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