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Rh was estimated at 6,000,000 Idiots, a kilot being nearly 7-3 gallons; in 1876, 12,000,000. In I860 there were 2,287,645 stremmas i.e., 565,048 acres under cereal crops, which yielded 9,512,993 kilots of grain i.e., 1,165,807 quarters, or 2 quarters an acre.

{{EB1911 fine print|The marble quarries of Pentclicus, Curyste, and Pares are important works. The coals of Eubœa are not much used, as their heat-giving capacity is small. The only mining operations in the country are those of the Laurium Company, which, by help of improved modern appliances, extracts treasure from the waste which the ancient workers of the mines threw away, and which has been roughly guessed to contain still 120,000 tons of had. The scoria} or refuse heaps of Laurium are dug up and carried on trucks, by a short line of rail belonging to the company, to the town of Ergasteria, near Cape Colonna, built by themselves to be their workshop and port ; there these scoriae are re-smelted, and yield annually nearly 10,000 tons of lead, and a large quantity of silver. There are 3000 operatives engaged in this work at Lrgnsteria. The value of the export in 1875 was 150,513.}}

