Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 10 | 25 | A medium-class View more quotes about round">round ship should be able to carry from 5,000 to 7,500 Gorean Weight. |
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Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 10 | 22 | In a round ship this means she would be able, in Earth figures, to freight between approximately one hundred and one hundred and fifty tons below decks. |
| 10 | 23 | I have calculated this figure from the Weight, a Gorean unit of measurement based on the Stone, which is about four Earth pounds. |
| 10 | 24 | A Weight is ten Stone. |
| 10 | 25 | A medium-class round ship should be able to carry from 5,000 to 7,500 Gorean Weight. |
| 10 | 26 | The Weight and the Stone, incidentally, are standardized throughout the Gorean cities by Merchant Law, the only common body of law existing among the cities. |
| 10 | 27 | The official "Stone," actually a solid metal cylinder, is kept, by the way, near the Sardar. |
| 10 | 28 | Four times a year, on a given day in each of the four great fairs held annually near the Sardar, it is brought forth with scales, that merchants from whatever city may test their own standard "Stone" against it. |
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In a round ship this means she would be able, in Earth figures, to freight between approximately one hundred and one hundred and fifty tons below decks.
I have calculated this figure from the Weight, a Gorean unit of measurement based on the Stone, which is about four Earth pounds.
A Weight is ten Stone.
A medium-class round ship should be able to carry from 5,000 to 7,500 Gorean Weight.
The Weight and the Stone, incidentally, are standardized throughout the Gorean cities by Merchant Law, the only common body of law existing among the cities.
The official "Stone," actually a solid metal cylinder, is kept, by the way, near the Sardar.
Four times a year, on a given day in each of the four great fairs held annually near the Sardar, it is brought forth with scales, that merchants from whatever city may test their own standard "Stone" against it.
- (Raiders of Gor)