In France, ? –19th centuries, premetric units of capacity and of land area, the latter a seed measure of land, based on the unit of capacity. The value of the units varied with location, as is illustrated by the values of the units in four communes in the Department Bouches du Rhône. The greatest distance between these locations is less than 20 kilometers.
| location | dry capacity |
liquid capacity (for oil) |
land area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martigues | 200 L | — | — |
| Istres | 173.24 L | 136.704 L | 9886.51 sq. m |
| St. Chamas | 197.23 L | 129.418 L | 6643.97 sq. m |
| St. Mitre | 197.23 L | 136.704 L | 9886.51 sq. m |
Arthur E. Kennelly.
Vestiges of Pre-Metric Weights and Measures Persisting in Metric-System Europe, 1926-1927.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928.
Page 50.
In Belgium, a premetric unit of mass equal to 400 livre, about 195.8 kilograms.
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