"Fanega" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... material products, and the country is very fertile. The grain of these regions is rice, and as a rule each fanega of grain sowed yields one hundred fanegas, and many yield two hundred fanegas, especially if it is irrigated and transplanted. There are oranges of many varieties, some of them resembling large melons. Honey and wax is found in the trees, where the bees make it. The wax is worth sixteen ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume XXII, 1625-29 • Various |
