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Page 54
... seems to have been uncertain whether the new Surat maund ( 20 dām to the seer ) should be taken at 36 or 37 lb .: actually it was a trifle under 37. To begin with , Mundy gives the old seer from memory , takes the new maund from Knipe's ...
... seems to have been uncertain whether the new Surat maund ( 20 dām to the seer ) should be taken at 36 or 37 lb .: actually it was a trifle under 37. To begin with , Mundy gives the old seer from memory , takes the new maund from Knipe's ...
Page 55
... seems open to question . I suspect Knipe wrote 2 tol . I g . 3 w . ( not I tolā ) . This would give a tolā of 215 = nearly 185 gr . , which is reasonable . " Compare the table given by Fryer , ed . Crooke , vol . II . p . 126 ; see also ...
... seems open to question . I suspect Knipe wrote 2 tol . I g . 3 w . ( not I tolā ) . This would give a tolā of 215 = nearly 185 gr . , which is reasonable . " Compare the table given by Fryer , ed . Crooke , vol . II . p . 126 ; see also ...
Page 186
... seems to have accepted as true that " this island [ Johanna ] is lying 60 degrees east longitude from us in England . " Here Mundy made a mistake , for the Comoro Islands lie about 60 ° east ( not of the British Isles ) of the Fortunate ...
... seems to have accepted as true that " this island [ Johanna ] is lying 60 degrees east longitude from us in England . " Here Mundy made a mistake , for the Comoro Islands lie about 60 ° east ( not of the British Isles ) of the Fortunate ...
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