WEIGHTS. 



tlie Eiiglifh acre coniifts of 4840 Iquare yards, hence the 

 proportion that the Scotch acre bears to the Englifh is, 

 with a fmall fraAion more, as 5 to 4, as feen above. 



That in hqiiid meafure the pint is the root, containing 

 103.404 c\ibic iiicties ; tlie half and quarter in proportion. 

 ' That the Linhthgow wheat firlot, the only ftandard 

 meafure for that grain in Scotland, contains 2 1;^ pints; 

 hence in cubic inches 2197.34. The Winchefter bufhel, 

 in like manner the Englifh ftandard, contains 2150.42 

 cubic inches ; hence the Scotch wheat firlot is about 2f 

 p£r cent, greater than the Englifh bufliel. 



And the Linlithgow barley meafure, which is likewife the 

 ilandard, contains 31 pints, or 3205.54 cubic inches ; hence 

 5^4 bufhels are very nearly equal to the Scotch boll of 

 4 firlots. 



That ftraw is fold by tale, 40 windlens to a kemple, 

 generally from 14 to i6 ilone trone weight. 



It is noticed, that in Eaft Lothian, meal is fold by the 

 peck of eight pounds Amfterdam weight ; and that the 

 boll of meal contains fixteen pecks or eight ilones. 



It is ftated in the Clydefdale Report on Agriculture, 

 that in the dry meafure, ufed in the fale of grain of all 

 kinds, a boll contains four firlots, a firlot four pecks, and 

 a peck four forpits or lippies ; 16 bolls make a chalder. 

 The firlot ufed to meafure bai'ley and oats, is almoft one- 

 half larger than the firlot for meafuring wheat, beans, peas, 

 &c. That both thefe meafures are about one-fixteenth 

 larger than the Linlithgow ftandards of the fame denomi- 

 nations. But for more than thirty years paft, wheat has 

 been bought and fold by the Linlithgow ftandard, which is 

 now attempted to be introduced for other grains. 



That in the lower parts of the county potatoes have 

 been meafured, for thefe forty years, with a difti of the 

 Ihape of a cafl<, the peck meafure holding fifteen Scotch 

 pints ; its weight, full of potatoes recently dug, is 43lbs. 

 avoirdupois. In the higher parts of the county potatoes 

 are fold by the barley meafure. 



That the peck, orjleei, for meafuring pears and apples, 

 holds about eighteen pints. The confufion occafioned by 

 the irregularity of weights and meafures, is too obvious, 

 the writer fays, to require any comment. 



In the Argyleftiire Agricultural Report, it is faid that 

 at Inverary the boll of meal is eight ftone Scotch troy, or 

 Dutch lyilbs. avoirdupois to the ftone. At Campbelton 

 it is ten ftone, of the fame weight ; or fixteen pecks of 

 lolbs. Scotch troy, or lolbs. 15 oz. avoirdupois each. 



That in fome parts of the Knapdale and Lorn, the boll 

 is nine ftone. That in the firft of the above places, oats, 

 barley, and malt, are meafured by a firlot of 3438.183 

 cubic inches ; equal to one firlot, two pints, one mutchkin, 

 Scotch ftandard meafure, which makes the boll (of four 

 firlots) 7.258 per cent, better than the Scotch ftandard 

 meafure, and equal to fix budiels, one peck, nine pints, 

 10.2 cubic inches, Englifti ftandard meafure. 



And that in Kiutyre, oats, barley, or bear and malt, 

 v;ere, for time immemorial, fold by a heaped peck, of 

 which the ftandard lay with the dean of Guild in Campbelton. 

 Of this meafure, feventeen pecks made, and ilill make, the 

 Kintyre boll from Auguft to Patrickmas, and only fixteen 

 from that date to the new crop ; and the divifions of the 

 boll are regulated by the fame proportions. But from the 

 inconvenience of meafuring by the heaped peck, it has been 



converted into the ftriked one eontainiiig liie fame qoanlity ; 

 and this new ftriked peck committed to the dean of Guild, 

 has been fince the ftandard of the diftrift. The dimen- 

 fions of it are twelve Englifti inches diameter, equally wide 

 throughout, and ten and a tenth Englifti inches deep. The 

 contents of it in cubic inches are 1142.28576, equal to 

 eleven Scotch pints, and a very httie more than two-thirds 

 of a gill, which makes the Kintyre boll 19418.85792 

 cubic inches, before Patrickmas, and 18276.57216 after it. 

 A lippie more, or ^th of a boll, for town dues, is given 

 with every boll dehvered in Campbelton. The firft is equal 

 to nine Winchefter buftiels, and 65.03112 cubic inches, 

 (about ,V of a bufliel) and equal to one boll eight pecks, 

 1. 61788 lippie, Linlithgow ftandard meafure. The latter 

 is equal to eight and a half Winchefter buftiels, excepting 

 2.0394 cubic inches, and to one boll fix pecks, 3,V!r lip- 

 pies Linlithgow. The Winchefter buftiel contains 2150.42 

 cubic inches. The Linlithgow boll ftandard meafure 

 12822.096. 



That at Inverary, the peck of potatoes contains fourteen 

 pints and one mutchkin, ale meafure. At Campbelton, it 

 contains about nine Englifti wine gallons, and is given 

 heaped ; and generally weighs about 561bs. avoirdupois. 



But that beans and peas are fold in Kintyre by the 

 old peck ftriked, or by a meafure one-third lefs than that 

 for oats and bear. Lineal and liquid meafures are the fame 

 with the Scotch ftandards. Butter, cheefe, tallow, hay, 

 wool, and lint, are fold by the ftone of 24lbs. avoirdupois. 

 Butcher's meat by the pound of twenty-four ounces avoir- 

 dupois at Inverary, and of fixteen ounces at Campbelton. 

 The herring-barrel contains thirty-two Englifti gallons of 

 wine meafure, or 67.28 cuftomary ale pints of 109.866 

 cubic inches each. 



Thefe fafts and ftatements fufBciently ftiew the necefiity 

 of fome regulation being fpeedily adopted of adjufting 

 weights and meafures to Tome fimple ftandard, both in this 

 and the northern parts of the kingdom. 



The table of weights conftrufted by lord Somerville, 

 and introduced below, may be ufeful to the ftock-farmer 

 and grazier in moft fituations. 



Table for the Equalization of different Weights. 



