Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 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. |
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Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 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. |
| 10 | 29 | The "Stone" of Port Kar, tested against the official "Stone" at the Sardar, reposed in a special fortified building in the great arsenal, which complex was administered by agents of the Council of Captains. |
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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.
The "Stone" of Port Kar, tested against the official "Stone" at the Sardar, reposed in a special fortified building in the great arsenal, which complex was administered by agents of the Council of Captains.
- (Raiders of Gor, Chapter 10)