Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 10 | 27 | The official "Stone," actually a solid metal cylinder, is kept, by the way, near the Sardar. |
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Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 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. |
| 10 | 30 | Medium class for a long ship, or ram-ship, is determined not by freight capacity but by keel length and width of beam; a medium-class long ship, or ram-ship, will have a keel length of from eighty to one hundred and twenty feet Gorean; and a width of beam of from ten to fifteen feet Gorean. |
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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.
Medium class for a long ship, or ram-ship, is determined not by freight capacity but by keel length and width of beam; a medium-class long ship, or ram-ship, will have a keel length of from eighty to one hundred and twenty feet Gorean; and a width of beam of from ten to fifteen feet Gorean.
- (Raiders of Gor, Chapter 10)