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UNITS OF MEASUREMENT IN THE EARLY DAYS

Cape of Good Hope rijksdaalder (rix dollar)  0.96 Netherlands rijksdaalder or 5 rjiksdaalders = UK£1
3 Cape guilders 8 skellings
1 Cape guilder 16 stuivers or 2 skellings and 4 stuivers
1 skelling (shilling) 6 stuivers
1 Dutch guilder 20 stuivers
1 morgen 2.12 acres     0.859 hectares
1 muid 3.1 bushels
1 leaguer 153.7 US gallons

From Leonard Guelke, "The Early European Settlement of South Africa, " (PhD diss., University of Toronto, 1974), 409.

 

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