Wheat is still successfully cultivated there, and the environs of the town of Tocuyo alone export annually more than eight thousand quintals of excellent flour.
La Victoria and the neighbouring village of San Mateo yield an annual produce of four thousand quintals of wheat.
An arpent yields one hundred quintals of hay a year, worth three livres the quintal.
On Thursday I was appointed to weigh the 300 gross quintals of saltpetre; and that afternoon the tabybe came to my lodging, to inform me that the king was offended with John Bampton for various reasons.
The king had then 30 or 40 quintals or hundred weights of pepper, which had long lain in a store-house, which he desired our people to look at, and that they should exhibit to him such commodities as they had brought for sale.
I have also a quantity of minerals, plenty of vitriol, cinnabar, antimony, and one hundred quintals of mercury.
The other iron things above mentioned that are sent from Nueva España to the said islands are unnecessary, for their cost per quintal, when delivered in Manila, will buy four quintals in the said islands.
With three hundred quintals of fish in her hold, I suppose?
Three hundred quintals of dry fish, at four dollars, roughly, a quintal, was twelve hundred dollars.
The average catch in a good year is, we were informed, from four to six hundred quintals in a vessel of perhaps forty tons, by a crew of from four to eight men.
An idea of the amount of fish taken may be given by the figures of the catch of five men from one schooner, who took one thousand quintals of codfish in thirteen days.
Instead of parting with a hundred quintals they part with fifty, while the quantity of grain in the Paris markets is not only insufficient, but the grain blackens or sprouts and the flour grows musty.
A sack of wheat weighing three quintals is now worth nine thousand francs, a pound of beef thirty six francs, a pair of shoes one hundred francs.
A decree is passed to enable the agent for provisions at Paris to supply its commissaries with twenty quintals of oil which, for three hundred and forty lamps, keeps one hundred agoing up to Germinal 1.
On the said day, April six, three libras of quicksilver were incorporated with three quintals of ore from the said hole and vein, which was obtained at a depth of ten estados; and the mixture was compounded with salt.
Compounding the assay of the said four quintals with salt and magistral, [60] the compound was washed on the second of May following, and a grain of gold of one-half real weight obtained.
Tuesday, the sixteenth, four libras of quicksilver were incorporated with four quintals of ore obtained at a depth of ten or eleven estados in the said mine and hole.
Thursday, April eighteen, they recrushed and washed the sweepings and residue of the first three quintals of ore which had been compounded with quicksilver.
On Thursday, May nine, three libras of quicksilver were incorporated with three quintals of ore obtained from the first hole and vein of the new mine, of which mention has been made.
Thursday, May twenty, two libras of quicksilver were incorporated with one and one-half quintals of ore obtained from a depth of fourteen estados in the said vein and hole which was opened as above stated.
Having made that assay in a stove, on the twenty-second of the said month of April they washed the said four quintals of ore, and obtained a grain of gold of the weight of one real.
On the twenty-ninth of April, three libras of quicksilver were incorporated with three quintals of ore obtained from a washing-place made by the Ygolotes below the openings, and near the preceding place.
On the said day, April six, of the said year, three quintals of ore from the same hole and veins were incorporated with three libras of quicksilver and compounded with salt.
On Sunday, April seven, twoquintals of the same ore from the said hole and vein were incorporated with two libras of quicksilver, having roasted the ore while in the form of stone, before crushing it.
On the fifth of the same month of May three libras of quicksilver were incorporated with three quintals of ore from the first hole and mouth opened near our fort, as above stated.
The Crown of Victory which the figure holds in her hands weighs one hundred quintals (a quintal is a hundred weight).
They found a bronze piece of artillery bearing the arms of the king of Portugal, apparently some seven or eight quintals in weight.
The natives on the coast, say that a bronze falcon weighing fourteen quintals was fired five times.
This year he gave as tribute a piece weighing fourteen quintals that must have been hidden away.
I have therefore in the fort, in your Majesty's magazine, four hundredquintals of bronze that seems to be good.
The oars are not yet ready for use, as there are not eightquintals of lead in this country.
So much is gathered there that not only are we all supplied cheaply, but there are sent to Nueva España, Japon, and China more than two thousand quintals each year.
They set fire to the village and to more than one thousand quintals of your Majesty's rigging, through the fault and neglect of him who was governing.
Twenty-four pieces of bronze artillery of thirty quintals will cost here a total of eleven or twelve thousand pesos or thereabout in addition to the salary of the founder.
This ship which is about to sail now is small and will not carry more than eighty quintals or so of cinnamon.
It carries seventy quintals of cinnamon which was bartered for in the island of Bindanao, namely, at the point called Cavite.
There wasn't more'n thirty quintals all told, and half of that was mine.
Where have you put those sixty quintals of fish which belong to Emile?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quintals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
