198 ^ Weights and Measures [no. 4, new series. 
Spirits in Madras are sold by the " dram" of 5*775 cubic inches, 
or J^th of the old Wine gallon. 
Instead of making 40 " seer-measures" = 1 " Mun-mea- 
sure," which might cause a confusion in the terms of Weight and 
Measure, (and the term Mun or Maund is not in use as a grain 
measure in Southern India,) it would be better to give some name 
to a quantitj' represented by 100 Seers. This might be called 
a "Sotee," from so, a hundred. The "Table" adverted to in 
the preceding page, would be as folloys : 
DRY AXD LIQUID MEASURES. ' 
Seers. 
Cubic 
inches. 
Tolas of 
Water. 
Tolas of 
Rice 
when 
struck. 
Tolas of 
Rice 
in 
heap. 
V 
Total 
weight. 
Diameter 
inches. 
Depth 
inches. 
I. 
11. 
III. 
IV. 
V. 
VIII, 
X. 
6M 
123-2 
198-3 
264-4 
330 5 
528-8 
6610 
92| 
185 
277i 
370 
462i 
740 
925 
149 
223i 
298 
372i 
596 
745 
5i 
11 
16| 
22 
27i 
44 
55 
80 
160 
240 
320 
400 
640 
800 
3- 7 
4- 5 
5- 3 
5- 7 
6- 2 
7 3 
7- 7 
6- 2 
7- 7 
9.0 
10-3 
10-9 
12-8 
130 
LIQUID 
MEASURE. 
1 
! 
\ 
8 
33.0 
16-5 
8-25 
46i 
23i 
lli 
J6 
3.0 
2-5 
20 
4-7 
3-4 
2-6 
Although the above plan for Measures of Capacity would pro- 
bably have the great advantage of facility of introduction, yet 
it is objectionable for any Government to lend a sanction to heaped 
measure ; moreover it will be observed that such a system does 
not accommodate itself at all to any English Measure of Capacity. 
Lastly, it would be indispensable that in every Measure used, the 
exact diameter be retained, in order to secure correctness (as far 
as it can be secured) in the heaped measure. This would give 
rise to a great deal of inconvenience, and is not a necessary ele- 
ment where struck Measures only are acknowledged. 
V 
