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# Title: Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 71; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 71)
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304  128
Ounces.
1 16 Pounds.
43008 14336 1792 E2Z Hundreds
860160) 28672035840 2240 20 Tuns
Troy Weight, is thac DV Which Cold, Silves
servels, Amiber, Electuaries, Bread, Corn, Li
quors, 9c. arc weiphed; and siom this Weish
all Mealures ot Wec and Drs Commodicies act
altest.
A Table os Troy Weigh.
Crains.
24 Ponngameis br.
180 20 Ounces.
57601240l 12 Pouncs.
A Table os Axerhecaries Wciehr.
Foreien Weiehts
Ocherallr Mheec Tors oP Weipbrs ac wled FOr
Merchandile.
1. W esxHES O Prear Conemt as Flundreds, Kin.
cals, Centeners, Talenis, Thoulands, Weiphs
Stippounds, Charges, Lispounds, Roores, 690.
2. Weishes OF leNex Content, 25 Pounds, Minas;
Manetio, Roculi, Csc.
3. Small NeighES aS OunCeS OF +2, + 4, 16, 18.
20, 30, 690. r0 the Pound, and che Subdiritions
oF the Ounce.
Falehes ol Mhe Hobrens, Crcelis, ae seen be.
fore.
Cantars, Centeners, or Kincals Pomerime Wrore
Ouintals, accompred by Nerchanes as Llundreds;
are 0t, 100, 112, 120, 125, 128, 132, and 140
Pounds.
Wcipts, OF Wers, are commoniy 165 Pound,
Ox 180 Pound, or 20c Pound and = FOF a ChargC.
Strippounds, uled in mans Places quasi Stippound
Or Shippond, For as in Ialy, and ocher Couneries
the Carga, Carso, or Charse, is the Loadine ot an
FTorle oF 300 or 400 Pound: S0 is the Stcippound
caken for theDivident of a Last ot Com laden in a
Strip. SKippounds areof 300, 320, 340, and 400
Pound co the Stippound. Cargo is often raken FOF
che whole L. adins or Burden oF a Strip.
Tispounds, ot 15, 16, and Somerimes 20 Pound
roche Lispound.
Roores, or Arrobas of 10, 20, 25, 30, and 40
Pound tothe ROOVC.
Sione ot 6, 8, 14, 16, 18, 20, 21, 24, 32, anel
40 Pound co lome Stones.
Poade oF Russia, by Heylinis 40 Pound.
Mixias, is commoniy undersood 10 bc 10000
Stams, oF8 to one Cunce, and 12 Ounces 10 2
Found.
Sesterrias ol Eleopatra in F Gypt, and orher Pla-
ces in sfrica, Were 2 Pounds =, For 50 Sesterrios
akC L2 Pound, buc in Thracia iE waS buE 2 SoF
Pound is dirided Mro more or lels Ounces.
Mark Weteh, commonly 8 Ounces.
Mark Pounel 16 Ounces, that i5, 2 NIarHS
Mina Prolomaica, Y Z Rotuli, OP 18 Ounces, OY
144 Dm, une in lester Divisioro hus.
Averdupois Neiett, is chat By wohich all Physie
DruES, GrOCeEY, ROtin, Wax, Pirch, Tar, Tal.
lon, Soap, (semp, and all chines thachave Waste.
al Base Mertals and Minerals, 25 lron, Scecl,
Lead, Tin, Coxper, Nom, COpDerAS, (C. 41e
veiphed.
A Fable os Averduxois Weiptit.
Orams
Scruples.
ootuple.
3 Oram
 24 8 Dunces.
3100200 96 112 Nonnao
a Pound.