8. The volume of 1000 Roman ounces of water, the original wine-bushel.
9. The 1000-ounce Quadrantal becomes the cubic foot, its side giving the English foot.
For the Rhineland and Scots system we have:
1. The Egyptian meridian cubit.
2. The Arabic or Black cubit, 7 palms of the meridian cubit’s 6 palms.
3. The Arabic foot, two-thirds of the Arabic cubit.
4. The Arabic talent or Cantar, the weight of an Arabic cubic foot of water.
5. The Troy ounce, 1/1500 of the Cantar, and coinciding with 10 lesser dirhems of about 48 grains.
6. The Rhineland talent of 1000 Troy ounces Amsterdam standard.
7. The Quadrantal containing 1000 Troy ounces of water becomes the cubic Rhineland foot, its side giving the measure of the Rhineland foot.