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494 APPENDIX.
WEIGHTS AND MONEY IN GREECE.
An ocque is two pounds and three quarters, or 400 drachms.
A measure is five ocques and a half.
A cantar is forty ocques.
A quintal is forty-four.
A kilo of grain is an English bushel.
Eight kilo and a half make a quarter of wheat.
The milliara grossa is 1000 great pound weight of Venetian measure; 2220 ot these
pounds form an English ton.
An aspra is half a para.
Forty paras make a Turkish piaster, which is about one shilling and seven pence English,
but its value varies according to the exchange.
A purse, which is called pouggi in Turkish, is 500 piasters.
About other Turkish money Leunclavius1 may be consulted.
1 Pandect. Hist. Turcic. p. 40-1. Taris edit.
WEIGHTS AND MONEY IN GREECE.
An ocque is two pounds and three quarters, or 400 drachms.
A measure is five ocques and a half.
A cantar is forty ocques.
A quintal is forty-four.
A kilo of grain is an English bushel.
Eight kilo and a half make a quarter of wheat.
The milliara grossa is 1000 great pound weight of Venetian measure; 2220 ot these
pounds form an English ton.
An aspra is half a para.
Forty paras make a Turkish piaster, which is about one shilling and seven pence English,
but its value varies according to the exchange.
A purse, which is called pouggi in Turkish, is 500 piasters.
About other Turkish money Leunclavius1 may be consulted.
1 Pandect. Hist. Turcic. p. 40-1. Taris edit.