Traditional Asian unit of mass.
1Where, then, was our picul of rice, and our curry, and our sugar?
2Rice of foreign importation is weighed and quoted by the picul of 133⅓ lbs.
3The ordinary price is about 1¼ dollars per picul.
4The price of straight sappan wood at Shanghae in July, last year, was thirty dollars per picul.
5The price of camphor at Canton in July, 1850, was from fourteen to fifteen dollars per picul.
6The cotton, in the seed, is sold by the picul, which is a weight of about 133 lbs.
7The price has gradually declined to 1¼ dollars per picul, at which rate it displaces its rival, bark.
8This is divided between the two houses, and the price they pay is from four to five dollars the picul.
9In quantity it was 17 Spanish dollars per picul, and there is no reason to suppose it would be more now.
10The whole of the coffee grown must be delivered by the inhabitants to the government exclusively, at twelve copper florins per picul.
11The cost of granulated sago, from the hands of the grower or producer, was, according to Mr. Crawfurd, only a dollar a picul.
12The cassia oil is rated at 150 dollars per picul, and the trade in this article reaches about 250,000 dollars.
13In parting with the men after our safe arrival at Chung-king, we left with them about seven-eighths of the picul-andwere not at all regretful.
14The quantity of gold that finds its way to Pontiana is annually from three to four piculs.
15Upwards of three thousand five hundred piculs are now exported, of which one-sixth goes to the United States.
16About 600,000 piculs of coco-nut oil are annually exported from Siam.