Such was the system of measures and weights used in Normandy, and surviving there in great part. The slightly differing systems of the Channel Islands are simply variants of this system, a rough sketch of which I have given by way of introduction to them. Jersey and Guernsey (the latter including Alderney and Sark in its government) are each practically autonomous. The Islanders keep their Norman laws, customs and dialects, and retain their systems of measures, weights and currency. These are being gradually modified by increased intercourse with England; and French influence tries hard, especially in Jersey, to introduce the metric system. _Linear and Land Measures_ 1. _Jersey._—For ordinary linear measures the English standards are used, the yard and the pied du roi; that is the English foot. There is also an ancient ell of 4 feet. For land measure the Jersey foot is 11 English inches (but divided into 12 land-inches); and 24 of these feet make a perch = 22 English feet. This peculiar standard is evidently an adaptation of the Norman custom (which prevailed in France) of making 24 short feet of either a quarter aune, or 11 pouces, the perch or verge, which became officially the _perche d’ordonnance_ of 22 French feet. The Jersey Vergée or rood is 40 square perches = 0·44 acre. 2. _Guernsey._—The linear measures are based on the English standards. They were, in 1611: Cloth yard = 38-1/2 inches (= half a toise). Sail Cloth yard = 44 „ English ell = 45-1/2 „ English yard = 36 (Verge d’Angleterre). The perch or verge is 21 feet; probably an approximate adaptation of the common perch of 20 French feet = 21·3 English feet. It is the same as the Irish and Lancashire rod. The verge or rood is 40 square perches = 0·4 acre. The acre-unit is not used now in either island. The bouvée (bovate) of 20 vergées, and caruée (carucate) of 12 bouvées remain only in manorial records. _Measures of Capacity_ 1. _Jersey._—The standard ordered in 1754, and confirmed in 1771, is the Cabot, defined as containing 10 Pots. The Pot contains 123·56 cubic inches = 0·445 Imperial gallon. It does not correspond directly to the Paris pot = 111 cubic inches or 0·41 gallon, nor apparently to the various Normandy pots, of which that of Caen, about Paris standard, is the type. It is simply one-tenth of the Cabot. The Cabot, a common name in Normandy for a corn-measure, is for wheat and for wine, cider, &c. A larger cabot, for barley and other light grain, is one-third larger, containing 13-1/3 pots; another, for coal, contains 14 pots. Lime and charcoal are measured by the cask of 120 Pots, i.e. 6 bushels of 20 pots. For a double cabot is usually called a bushel.