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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 See also:

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

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