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Picul   Listen
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Picul  n.  (Written also pecul, and pecal)  A commercial weight varying in different countries and for different commodities. In Borneo it is 135 5/8 lbs.; in China and Sumatra, 133 1/2 lbs.; in Japan, 133 1/3 lbs.; but sometimes 130 lbs., etc. Called also, by the Chinese, tan.





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... fathoms. I landed immediately, and found the people engaged in quarrying and manufacturing lime from the hills on the right bank. We had a pleasant walk; the day being beautiful, and the scenery very fine. They sell their lime at about 17$. per ton (200 cash a picul), and buy the small coal which they employ in their kilns at about 25$. (300 cash a picul). I wish I could do as well ...
— Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin • James, Eighth Earl of Elgin


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