Cawnie

The Cawney, also Kahni, was an East Indian area measure and was in Madras. Different dimension strings recorded from the measure.

The Covit was the mile in the East Indies and in the Chinese Canton, was in Madras, Bombay and Calcutta with these dimensions .. He was the basis for the surface measure.

In other regions, he departed from this now and was, for example in Camboja = 0.63 meters, on the island of Amboina, he was = 0.464 meters and Chinese Canton was the measure = 0.37 meters.

The Cawney / Kahni was so divided