1. The Channel islands 157 2. South Africa (Cape Colony) 166 3. India 167 4. Burma and the Straits 172 5. Canada and Mauritius 173 CHAPTER XIII MEASURES OF VALUE 1. English money 174 2. Guernsey currency 183 3. Indian money 184 4. Decimal currency 188 CHAPTER XIV MEASURES OF TIME The lunar year 194 The compass-card 195 CHAPTER XV MEASURES OF HEAT AND OF DENSITY 197 Compound industrial units 201 CHAPTER XVI THE ELLS 202 CHAPTER XVII FOREIGN LINEAR MEASURES 1. Teutonic countries 206 2. Latin countries 208 3. Russia and the East 212 4. The Hashimi cubit 214 5. The Halebi pík or arshīn 215 CHAPTER XVIII FOREIGN WEIGHTS 1. Teutonic systems 218 2. East-European systems 219 3. Mediterranean systems 220 Summary 224 Original weights of the dirhems 226 CHAPTER XIX FOREIGN MEASURES OF CAPACITY 1. The Teutonic system 227 2. The Mediterranean system 232 3. Hebrew weights and measures of capacity 237 CHAPTER XX THE DEVELOPMENT OF MEANING IN THE NAMES OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES 1. General remarks 240 2. The nail and the clove; the inch and the ounce 242 3. The carat and the grain 245 4. The tun and the fother 252 CHAPTER XXI THE OLD MEASURES AND WEIGHTS OF FRANCE