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0?i the Statistics of Dukhun. 



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Fahr. it contained 36,462 grains troy, being 48 per cent, less than an 

 imperial gallon, or very nearly two quarts ; rigidly, the seer is 4-17 per 

 cent, larger than an imperial quart. It is curious that the first subdi- 

 vision of the ^iV/^o/^'e is not one-half but one-fourth, or half a seer, a 

 seer measure being very rarely in use; then a quarter of a seer, and 

 finally, one-eigh.h.* In seme places there are whm are called nmleand 

 female Adholecs, one being a little larger than the other : retail traders 

 buy with the largest and sell by the smallest. The multiples are 2 

 AdJioJees 1 Pvheehe or 4 seers, 12 PvheeJees 1 Mnn (Maund), and 20 

 Muns 1 Kundce (Candy) ; but in seme places there are 16 Puhcelees to 

 ihe Mwi : and along ihe Ghats, and in the Konkun, there «re only 3| 

 seers to the Puleelee. Determined by the weight of the contents of 

 the Adholce of well-dried Jerwail rice, the Kundee would be 20 cwt. 1 qr. 

 26 lbs. 10 oz. 12 drs. 16 grs. avoirdupois. 



It is necessary to mention that the/oz<; of all grains is sold by weight 

 and not by measure. 



Oil, spirits, and milk, are sold by different measures of capacity. 

 These are all professedly founded on the seer of weight ; but their dis- 

 crepancies may well render it doubtful. At one place I found the seer 

 of oil measure to contain 26 rupees' weight of water, at others, 66 ru- 

 pees', 80 rupees', &c. The forms of these measures are various. The 

 same observations apply to spirit measures. The seer of milk in one 

 place contained S8 rupees' weight of water, in another 93, and elsewhere 

 up to 109 rupees' weight. 



Weiglits. — The standard seer of weight in Poona weighs 80Ankoosee 

 rupees or 13,800 grains trey, or 1 lb. 15oz. 8 dwts. 18| grs. avoirdupois j 

 but the most common seer in use in Dukhun is one of 76 rupees ; the 

 divisions are y^foV/ 5C'tr (half), Pao teer (quarier), Jdh pa o or JVoictank 

 (one-eighth.), and Chettanh (one-sixteenth). For the ccnvenience of 

 calculation, the seer is divided into 72 tanls or ioUahs, and one-eighth, 

 of course , is Ntwiar.k or nine tanks, and one-sixicenth is Sarhee char- 

 /a??/c or 4§ tanks, which is corrupted into C/^e^'^f.wX:. The multiples are 

 Panchseer (five seers), the mun of 40 seers equal to 78 lbs. l3oz. 11 drs. 

 1 1 grs. avoirdupois, or 95 lb. 10 oz. troy exactly ; the Pullah of 3 muns, 

 and the Kundee o'i mims. But I have shown how far the weights 

 really in use difiered from the above, and in the tract lying between the 

 Seena and Beema rivers, ihe weight called ihe Bur eedeehdidi not even 

 the same constituents or mulliples as the Poona weights. 



* Sellers of sweetrmeats have 1 -i6th of a seer. 



