The Cabot, a common name in Normandy for a corn-measure, is for wheat and for wine, cider, &c. A larger cabot, for barley and other light grain, is one-third larger, containing 13-1/3 pots; another, for coal, contains 14 pots. Lime and charcoal are measured by the cask of 120 Pots, i.e. 6 bushels of 20 pots. For a double cabot is usually called a bushel.
The Cabot = 1235·6 cubic inches, and containing 4·456 gallons, coincides nearly with one-eighth of the Paris Setier = 4·29 bushels, and also with the Panau or Eimino, 1/8 of the Marseilles Cargo of 4·34 bushels.
It is divided into 6 Sixtonniers.
For wine, cider, &c., it is divided into gallons (double pots, 1/5 cabot), pots, quarts and pints.
A double cabot is the bushel. The duodecimal division of the Paris Setier and the division (in the corresponding wheat-water series) of the Quartant into 9 veltes, prevent the relations of the Jersey measures with those of Paris being clearly seen. But the relations with the Marseilles standards, corn and wine, from which the Paris standards were taken, are evident. It will be seen in the [chapter] on the Old Measures of France that the Paris Setier was derived, through the Marseilles Cargo, from the Egyptian Rebekeh, which is the cubed cubit of Al-Mamūn.
The Cabot has been stated (Ansted, ‘Channel Islands,’ 1862) to contain 43 lb. 7 oz. of water. On this estimate = 4·344 gallons, it is exactly the Marseilles Eimino.
| Marseilles | Jersey | ||
| Gallons | Gallons | ||
| Cargo | 34·72 | Quarter (8 Cabots) | 35·6 |
| Sestié | 8·68 | Bushel | 8·91 |
| Eimino, Panau | 4·34 | Cabot | 4·45 |
| 1/6 „ | 0·72 | Sixtonnier | 0·74 |
| Fluid Measures. | |||
| Escandau | 3·54 | ||
| Quartié | 0·885 | Gallon | 0·89 |
| 1/2 „ | 0·442 | Pot (1/10 Cabot) | 0·445 |
| Pot, Pechié | 0·221 | Quarte | 0·222 |
| Fuieto | 0·11 | Pinte | 0·111 |
N.B.—The Escandau is the Panau diminished in wheat-water ratio. The Jersey pot is the fluid measure in wheat-water ratio with 1/8 cabot.
There seems no doubt that the cabot is the eighth of the setier (and of the Cargo), slightly variant, as the Jersey pound is a variant of the Paris pound.
There is also a measure for apples = 3·77 bushels or 30 gallons. The ordinary barattée (churnful) of apples in Normandy is 25 pots = 10 gallons.