If the Stirling jug contains I Oa} inches, the wheat firlot will contain 2109 inches, which is more than two per cent. larger than the legal malt bushel of England, and about one per cent. larger than the Winchester bushel ; and the barley firlot will contain 3208 inches. The barley boll is nearly equal to six legal malt bushels. In Stirlingshire, 17 pecks are reckoned to the boll ; in Inverness-shire, 18 pecks ; in Ayrshire, the boll is the same as the English quarter. And the tirlots in many places are larger than the Linlithgow standard.
French dry measure, are the litron, bushel, minot, mine, sep tier, muid, and tun. The litron is divided into two dem ilitrons. and four quarter litrons, and contains 30 cubic inches of Paris. By ordonnancc, the litron is to be three inches and a half high, and three inches ten lines broad. The litron for salt is la • and is divided into two halves, four iptarters, eight demi-quarters, and 16 measurettes. The French bushel is different in different julisdictions. At Paris it is divided into dend-bushels. each dci»i-bushel into two quarters, the t and the halfq(..art into two litrons, so that the bushel contains 16 litrons. ordonnance the Paris bushel is to he 6 inches 2.1 lines high, and 10 inches broad, or in diameter within side. The minot consists of 3 bushels, the mine of 2 minots or 6 bushels, the septier of .) mines or 12 bushels, and the timid of 12 septiers, or 1• 1 bushels. The bushel of oats is estimated double that of any other grain ; so that there go 24 bushels to make the septier, and 288 to make the multi. It is divided into 4 pientins, the picotin containing 2 quarts. or 4 litrons, The bushel for salt is divided into 2 • quarters, S half-quarters, and 16 litrons ; • bushels make a minot, 16 a slider, and 192 a timid. The bushel for wood is divided into halves, quarters, and half-quarters. S bushels make the minot. 19 a mine ; 'fines, or :320 bushels, the timid. For plaster, 12 bushels make a sack, and 36 sacks a timid. For limo, :3 bushels make a 'tiling, and 48 )(limits a mu'd. The minot is by ordonnanee to be 11 inches it lines high. and 14 inches 8 lines in diameter. The minot is eompowd of 3 bushels, or 16 litrons ; 4 ininots make a septier, and 48:1 ill The French mine is no real vessel, but an estimation of others. :\t Paris, the mine contains 4; b and 24 make the timid ; at l;onen, the mine is 4 bushels ; and at Dieppe, 18 mines make a Paris timid. The septier (Hir•rs in (litre, cut places: at Paris, it contains 2 mines, or 8 bushels, and 12 sel(tiers the muid ; at Boma) the septier contains 2 mines or 12 bushels. Twelve septiers make a muid at Rouen as as Paris ; but 12 of the latter are equal to 14 of the former. At the septier contains a Mille and a half ; three of which tit nes make the septier (i1 or luny of ('Sri', consists of 12 septiers, and is divided into mines, ininots, bushels, ke. That tii• oats is double that Itir other grain,?. C., twicethelllIhober oflinshels. At Orleans,
the :mild is divided into mines. but those contain two Paris septiers and a hail: In same place. they use the tun instead of the timid, at Nantes, where it eon tains 10 septiels of 16 each. and weighs between 2.200 and 2.250 pounds. Three of these tuns make 28 Paris septiers. At. I:twin-Ile, &e., the tun contains •12 bushels. and weighs two per cent. less than that of Nantes. At Brest, it contains 20 bushels, is equal to 10 Paris septiers, and weighs about 2.240 pounds.
Dutch, Swedish, Polish, Prussian, and Muscovite. In these places, they estimate their dry things on the foot of the lust, lest, lock, tech t ; su called according to the various pro inniciations of the people who use it. In I Tolland. the last is equal to 19 Paris septiers, or 38 Bordeaux bushels, and weighs about •,560 pound: ; the last they divide into 27 muids, and the nmid into 4 schoples. In Poland, the last is 40 Bordeaux bushels. and weighs about •1,800 Paris pounds. In Prussia. the last is 133 Paris septiers. In Sweden and .Nluscory, they measure, by the great and little last. the first containing 12 barrels, and the second halt' as many. In .Nluseovy, they likewise use the citetford, which is difrerent in various places ; that of Archangel is equal to three Ifoucn bushels.
Italian. At Venice, Leghoin, and Lanica, they estimate their dry things I In the stare or stale. The stare or weighs 5•1 pounds ; are equal to the Amsterdam last. At Lucca, 119 stares last of The •ciik tam sta•o weighs 128 Paris pounds ; the sta•o is divided into four quarter,. Th'rtv five stalos and h. or 1.10 qua( ter, and four•filths, make the last ofAm sterdam. At Naples, and other parts, they use the ,omoIo,o: toinalo, equal to one-third of the Paris septier. Thirty-si) tomoli and a make the corm, and a 'urro and a half, or tomoli, make the last of A insterdam. At Palermo, 16 tomol make the salma, and • mondili the tomolo. Ten salinas noes three.sevenths, or 171 tumuli and three-sevenths, make the last of A inster)lam.
Flemish. At Antwerp, &c., they measure by the viertel. 32 niiike 19 Paris septiers. At I lamburg, the schepel ; 90 make 19 Paris scptiers.
Spanish and Portnunese. At Cadiz. Billion., and St Sebastian. they use the fanega; whereof make the Name or Rochelle tun, or 9A- Paris septiers, though the 13ilboa faneea is somewhat larger, insomuch that 21 fiinegas make fl Nantes ND, At Seville, &c., they use the anarroras, con• twining little more than the Paris mine ; 36 anagoras make 19 Paris septiers. At. Bayonne, &c., the concha ; 30 whereof are equal to 9,1 Paris septiers. At Lisbon, the alquiver, very small measure ; 240 whereof make 90 Paris septiers, 60 the I sltnn muids.
N(,, or MxxsuRATtos, defined geometrically, is the assuming ally certain quantity, and expressing the propoititill of other similar quantities to the same.