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 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 ....

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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.