Forlot, Firlot, or Furlet

It may be interesting to your correspondent J. S. to be informed that there is a measure of capacity in universal use in this part of India called a *fara* or *fura*, which is identical in shape, and, as nearly as can be judged by the eye, in size, with the Scottish *furlet*. The *fura* is divided into sixteen *pilys*, a small measure in universal use here; in like manner as the *furlet* is divided into sixteen *lipys*, which measure was, and I presume still is, in general use throughout Scotland. A friend informs me that, in the west of Scotland, the common pronunciation of the word *furlet*…