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"ref": "c. 1605, John Saris, quoted in Anthony Farrington's The English Factory in Japan (1991), p. 56",
"text": "Powder sugar of China, the hundred cattees or peecull worth fortie to fiftie."
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"ref": "1888, Archibald John Little, Through the Yang-tse Gorges, page 279",
"text": "The coal is sold for 130 cash... per picul of 133 pounds.",
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"word": "擔"
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{
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"word": "擔"
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