[245] Op. cit. 373. “The fetiches they cast in moulds made of a black and heavy earth into what form they please.” (p. 367.)
[246] Ellis, History of Madagascar, I. p. 335.
[247] Op. cit. I. p. 6.
[248] Prescott, Conquest of Mexico, p. 44.
[249] Prescott, Peru, p. 56.
[250] Nissen, “Griechische und römische Metrologie” (Iwan Müller’s Handbuch der classischen Alterthumswissenschaft I. 663 seq. or separately, Nordlingen, 1886).
[251] “Das älteste Gewicht,” 1889, pp. 1-9, 34-43.
[252] The whole series of these ancient weights was some years ago subject to a careful process of weighing in a balance of precision by an officer of the Standard Department and the result was published by Mr W. H. Chisholme in the Ninth Annual Report of the Warden of the Standards 1874-5, where a complete list of all of them may be found.
All the more important pieces had however been weighed many years before, and it need only be stated that the results of the process of re-weighing under more favourable conditions are in the main identical with those formerly arrived at by Queipo and the late Dr Brandis.
[253] Metrologie², p. 393.