Liibcck. For gold and silver, as at Hamburg. The commercial pound is 1.0685 lb. averdupois. The sehefel is .92 of the English bushel. The ahm is 31.85 gallons. The foot or half ell is 11.346 inches.
Malta. The pound for gold and silver is 4886 grains. The commercial pound is 1.745 lb. averdupois. The salnia is 7.968 bushels. The foot is 11.167 inches. The canna (8 palmi) is 81.9 inches.
Milan. The merle is 3627 grains. The pound sottile is .7200 lb. averdupois ; the pound grosso is 1.682 lb. averdupois. The laoggio (32 quartari) is 4.0234 bushels. The brenta (12 quartari) is 15.71 gallons. The braccio is 23.42 inches. The metrical system is also introduced.
Naples. The pound for gold and silver is 4950 grains. The cantaro grosso is 196.5 pounds averdupois, the cantaro piccolo 106 pounds averdupois. The tontolo is 1.407 of the English bushel, The barite is 9.172 gallons. The Talmo is 10.38 inches. The moggia is 3 roods 12 perches.
• Netherlands. The French metrical system.
Portugal. The mare is 3511.5 grains. The commercial pound is 1.0119 lb. averdupois. The moyo is 22.39 bushels. The almude is 3.0407 gallons. The foot is 12.944 inches. • Prussia. The Cologne mare is 3609 grains 2 mares are a commercial pound, or 1.0311 lb. averdupois. The scheffel is 1.5110 of the English bushel. The timer is 15.11 gallons. Thefoot is 12.356 inches; the ell two thirds of a metre. The morgen or acre is 2 roods 21 perches.
Rome. The pound is 5234 grains, or .7477 lb. averdupois. The rubbio (4 quarte) is 8.1012 bushels. The barite (32 boccali) is 12.841 gallons. The foot is 11.72 inches ; The builders' canna, of 10 palms, is 87.96 inches.
Russia. There is but one pound, .9026 lb. averdupois. The rood is 30 lb. averdupois. The chertwert is 5.7698 bushels. The vedro is 2.7048 gallons. The inch is the English one ; the arshine is 28 inches ; the foot is 131 inches ; but the English foot is in common use. The Russian verst, or werst, is 0.664
(or about two-thirds) of an English mile. The dessetina is 2 acres, 2 roods, 32 perches.
Sardinia has lately adopted the French me . trical system.
Sarong. For gold and silver the Cologne I mare. The commercial pound is 1.0294 lb. averdupois. The Dresden wispel (24 scheffas) is 69.85 bushels ; the Leipzic wispel, 91.747 bushels. The Dresden eimer is 14.89 gallons ; the Leipzic eimer 16.75 gallons. The Dresden foot is 11.14 inches ; the Leipzig foot is 11.13 inches. The acre is 1 acre, 1 rood, 18 perches.
Sicily. The pound is 7 pounds averdupois. The cantaro grosso is 192.5 pounds averdupois ; the cantaro sottik is 175 lb. averdupois. The salma grossa is 9.46 bushels ; the saline generale 7.59 lnishels. The salma of wino is 19.23 litres. The pahno is 9.5 inches.
Smyrna. The chequee is 4958 grains. The rottolo is 1.2748 lb. averdupois. The billow is 11.3 gallons. The pike is 27 inches.
Spain. The Castilian mare for gold and silver is 4800 grains. The commercial pound is 1.0144 lb. averdupois. The fanega is 1.55 of the English bushel. The arroba of wine is 3.538 gallons. The foot is 11.128 inches ; the ware is 33.384 inches. The fanepda (for corn-land) is 1 acre, 21 perches.
Sweden. The Mint mare is 3252 grains. The commercial pound is .9376 lb. averdupois. The dry tunna is 4.028 bushels ; the liquid tunna is 48 banns of .5756 of the English gallon each. The foot, or hatf-ell, is 11.084 inches. The tunneland is 1 acre 35 perches.
Switzerland adopted the French metrical system by a law passed in 1849.
United States. The weights and measures are those of England before the introduction of the imperial standard.