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Meafure.
| becaufe 3 of them make a pipe or 2 barrels, and 6 the
faid tun. The fteckan is 16 mingles, or 32 pints 5
and the verge is, in refpeft of the faid Rhenifh and
Mofelle, and fome other forts of wine, 6 mingles *,
but, in meafuring brandy it conftfts of 6£ mingles.
The aume is divided into 4 anckers, and the ancker
into 2 fteckans, or 32 mingles. The ancker is taken
fometimes for of a tun, or 4 barrels ; on which
footing the Bourdeaux barrel ought to contain at
Amfterdam (when the calk is made according to the
juft gauge) 124 fteckans, or 200 mingles, wine and
lees; or t2 fteckans, or 192 mingles, racked wine;
fo that the Bourdeaux tun of wine contains 50 fteckans,
or 800 mingles, wine and lees ; and 48 fteckans, or
768 mingles, of pure wine. The barrels or poin^ons
of Nantes and other places on the river Loire, con¬
tain only 12 fteckans, Amfterdam meafure. The wine
tun of Rochelle, Cogniac, Charente, and the ille of
Rhe, differs very little from the tun of Bourdeaux, and
confequently from the barrels and pipes. A tun of
wine of Chaloffe, Bayonne, and the neighbouring
places, is reckoned 60 fteckans, and the barrel 15,
Amfterdam meafure.
The muid of Paris contains 150 quarts or 300 pints,
wine and lees ; or 280 pints clear wine ; of which
snuids 3 make a tun, and the fra&ions are,
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At Rochelle, Cogniac, the ifle of Rhe,
and the country of Aunis, - 27 Veertels
At Nantes, and feveral places of Bre¬
tagne and Anjou - - 29 Veertels
At Bourdeaux, and different parts of
32 Verges
30 Veertels
30 Verges
27 Verges
Meafurc.
Guienne
At Amfterdam, and other cities of"
Holland
At Hamburgh and Lubeck
At Embden
In Provence and Languedoc, brandy is fold by the
quintal, the calks included ; and at Bruges in Flan¬
ders, the verges are called fejlcrs of 16 flops each, and
the fpirits is fold at fo much per ftop.
Olive oil is alfo (hipped in calks of various fizes,
according to the cuftom of the places where it is em¬
barked, and the conveniency of ftowage. In England
it is fold by the tun of 236 gallons ; and at Amfter¬
dam by the tun of 717 mingles, or 1434 pints. In
Provence it is fold by milleroles of 66 Paris pints;
from Spain and Portugal it is brought in pipes or
butts, of different gauges ; at the firft place it is fold
by roves, where 40 go to the butt; and at the latter
place by almoudas, whereof 26 make a pipe. Train
oil is fold in England by the tun, at Amfterdam by
the barrel.
The muid
The fetier
The quart
The pint
The chopin
The demi-fetier
{36 fetiers
| 4 quarts
2 pints
2 chopins
2 demi-fetiers
2 poiffons
The muid is alfo compofed of pipes or poin^ons,
quarteaux, queves, and demiqueves ; thofe poinqons
of Paris and Orleans contain about 15 fteckans Am¬
fterdam meafure, and ought to weigh with the calk
6661b. a little more or lefs. In Provence they reckon
by milleroles, and the millerole of Toulon contains 66
Paris pints, or 100 pints of Amfterdam, nearly, and
the Paris pint is nearly equal to the Englilh wine
quart (a).
The butts or pipes from Cadiz, Malaga, Alicant,
Benecarlo, Saloe, and Mataro, and from the Canaries,
from Lilbon, Oporto, and Fayal, arc very different
in their gauges, though in affreightments they are all
reckoned two to the tun.
Vinegar is meafured in the fame manner as wine;
but the meafures for brandies are different : thefe
fpirits from France, Spain, Portugal, &c. are gene¬
rally (hipped in large calks called pipes, butts, and
pieces, according to the places from whence they are
Imported, &c. In France, brandy is (hipped in calks
called pieces at Bourdeaux, and pipes at Rochelle, Cog¬
niac, the ifle of Rhe, and other neighbouring places,
which contain fome more and fome lefs, even from 60
to 90 Amfterdam verges or veertels, according to the
capacity of the veffels, and the places they come from,
which, being reduced into barrels, will Hand as fol-
lows, viz.
Tables of Liquid Meafure.
1. English.
(a) Thefe are the old meafures of France, the account of v'hich, for the fake of comparifon, is here retained.
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