Malta

units of length

			qasba
		jarda	2 2/3
	xiber	—	8
pulzier	12	—	96
0.859 in	10.312 in	36 in	2.292 yd
2.183 cm	26.194 cm	91.44 cm	2.096 m

A British publication of 1843, compiled from official Colonial Office records, uses the Italian names instead of Maltese, but provides the Italian names for smaller units. It also states: “For cloth, linen, cotton, stone, &c. … 3½ palmi make an English yard”¹, from which estimate the equivalents shown in pink below have been calculated. That was a standard, convenient convention in commerce; however, a more exact equivalent was 81.9 inches to the canna.²

				canna
			palmo	8
		police	12	96
	linea	12	144	1152
punti	12	144	1728	13,824
0.006 in	.07 in	.857 in	10.29 in	82.29 in
0.15 mm	1.81 mm	2.18 cm	26.13 cm	2.09 m
0.006 in	0.07 in	.853 in	10.24 in	81.9 in
0.15 mm	1.81 mm	2.17 cm	26.00 cm	2.08 m

1. Robert Montgomery Martin.
History of the Colonies of the British Empire in the West Indies, South America, North America, Asia...
London: W. H. Allen & Co. and George Routledge, 1843.

Page 587.

2. Kelly