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MORGEN

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 836 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MORGEN  , a unit of measurement of

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land in
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Holland and the Dutch colonies, and hence still current in
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South
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Africa,
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equivalent to about 2 acres . It is also used in
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Prussia,
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Norway and
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Denmark, where it equals about two-thirds of an
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acre . The word is usually taken to be the same as the
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German and Dutch word for "
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morning," the
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area of a " morgen " being equal to that covered by a morning's ploughing .

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