MONEY, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES.
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3^ millions sterling in the ten years 1860-69, the imports of British produce and manufactures augmented 9-^ millions in value during the same period, or at the average rate of nearly one million sterling per annum.
The exports from and imports of British produce into Germany were distributed as follows among the maritime states and territorial divisions of the Empire in the year 1869 : —
States and territorial divisions
Exports to Great Britain
Imports of British produce
Prussia (Old provinces) . Schleswig-Holstein Mecklenburg-Schwerin . Hanover .... Oldenburg .... Hanse Towns
Total ....
&
6,117,352
925,188
385,855
611,433
40,288
10,273,898
£
3,239,839
90,687
37,064
. 186,151
35,854
19,252,150
18,354,014
22,841,745
The ports of Prussia and the Hanse Towns, Hamburg, Llibeck, and Bremen, are, it will be seen, the chief gates of commercial inter- course of Germany with the United Kingdom.
Money, Weights, and Measures.
The money, weights, and measures generally in use throughout the whole of Germany, and their British equivalents, are —
Money.
The Thaler, of 30 Grosschen . „ Gulden, or florin, of 60 Kreuzer
= 35.
= Is.
Weights and Measures.
The Centner „ Ship Last, of timber „ Scheffel
„ Klafter . ,, Schock .
[ Measure of coals ,, Loth „ Morgen . „ Eimer ,, Acker „ German Mele
= 110|lbs. avoirdupois.
= About 80 cubic feet.
= \\ Imperial bushel, or about
5i to the Imperial quarter. = 6 feet, = 60 pieces. = 2,270 lbs. avoirdupois. = 6 bushels.
= 225 grains troy, about 9^ dwts. = - 65 acre. = 15 gallons. = 137 English acre. = 4 miles, 1,056 yards.
