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Weigbis and Meafures, -nanO!> 05 
One oke of Kahira = four hundred drams. 
One rotal = one hundred forty-four drams. 
One rotal filk of Syria = two hundred twenty-nine and 
a half drams. 
The Cantar is rotals = 102 — 105 — 110 — 120—130, 
variable according to the commodity. 
Jewels^ Gold^ and Silver. 
One kerat == 4 grains. 
One dram or dirhem =16 kerats. 
One mitkal = 24 kerats. 
One wekie =81: drams. 
Meafure of Cloth ^ &c. 
Pike of Conftantinople, called Draa StamhuU^ Arab. ; 
Turk. Htndazi^ is ufed for felling cloth and filk. It 
amounts to twenty-feven inches. 
Pike of Kahira, ufed for other articles = eighteen inches. 
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