N.B.—1000 sq. cano = 1 acre.
The Saumado, of 1600 sq. cano = 1·6 acre.
Such is the typical system of Southern measures, best preserved in the neighbourhood of Marseilles, but prevailing throughout the Southern half of France, though with local variations in the length of the cano and the names of the land-units.
Measures of Capacity
These have mostly been given in the story of the pán and in the seed-measures corresponding to the land-measures.
Throughout the system the divisions in each series are sexdecimal, even the Cosso, 1/20 Eiminado, being 1/160 Saumado.
Weights
There were three types of pounds in South France, local variations from these being very slight. The pound was always 16 ounces, each of 8 ternau. The Ternau, so called from its being divided into 3 pennyweights, was the Arab dirhem. The three types of pound were:
| Languedoc | lb. | = 6400 | grs. | Ounce | = 400 | grs. | Ternau | = 50 | grs. |
| Gascony | „ | = 6280 | „ | „ | = 392 | „ | „ | = 49 | „ |
| Provence | „ | = 6030 | „ | „ | = 377 | „ | „ | = 47 | „ |
| (See [Chapter XVIII].) |
The Quintal was 100 of these pounds, but long hundredweights were common. Its quarter was the Rub (Ar. rouba, four). These weights are nearly obsolete, as the possession of any weights not of the Republican system would be illegal. The measures of length and capacity are often slightly altered so as to be in metric units: the pán becomes a quarter-metre; groceries are often ticketed by the hectogramme, as this is known to coincide very closely with the old Southern quarter-pound.