Lexicographical Neighbors of Arobas
Literary usage of Arobas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mining and Smelting Magazine (1862)
"The precipitate is reduced to black copper in a German blast hearth, capable of
treating in twenty-four hours about 176 arobas, or 2 tons. ..."
2. Science Papers: Chiefly Pharmacological and Botanical by Daniel Hanbury (1876)
"There are at present worked 1400 balsam-trees, producing about 160 arobas yearly.
In the vicinity are 1500 cacao-trees of fine quality, producing seventy ..."
3. La Plata, the Argentine Confederation and Paraguay: Being a Narrative of the by Thomas Jefferson Page (1859)
"In 1850 there was received here, in transitu for other places, among a variety
of articles, the following: 10624 tercias* of yerba, 1694 arobas of wool, ..."
4. Portugal and Its Capabilities: Being the Essay for which "The Oliveira Prize by Joseph James Forrester (1856)
"A Chest of Sugar weighs 60 arobas, equal to 140 English stones of 14 fts.
avoirdupois. Six Gallegos, or Gallicism porters, carry one of these chests of ..."
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