MIDDLE-QUARTERS OF COLUMNS. plan or horizontal section of a column is divided into four quadrants, by lines not at right angles to the front, but at an angle of 45 degrees therewith, the four quarters are called the middle quarters.
MILE (from the Latin. milk, a thousand) a long measure, whereby the English. Italians, and some other nations, express the distance between places. See MEASURE.
In this sense mile is used to the same purpose with league, by the French and other nations. The mile is of various extent in different countries. The geographical, or Italian mile, contains a thousand geometrical paces, milk passes, whence the term mile is derived.
The English mile consists of eight furlongs, each furlong of 40 poles, and each pole of 161 feet: so that it is equal to 1760 yards, or 5'2S0 feet.
The mile employed by the Romans in Great Britain, and restored by Henry VII., is our present English mile. A degree of the meridian in England, north latitude 52, accord ing to the measurement of Colonel Mudge, is 121,610 yards, or 69.114 miles. A geographical, or sea mile, is the 60th part of such a degree, i.e. 2,0271 yards ; and three sea-miles make a league. A degree of the meridian, in north lati tude 45, as measured in France in 1796, is 57,008 toises = 121,512 yards = 69.092 English miles.
Casimir has made a curious reduction of the miles, or leagues, of the several countries in Europe into Roman feet, which are equal to the Rhinland feet generally used through out the north.
A Table of the Length of Miles, Leagues, (te. ancient and modern, in English yards.
Eng. Yards. Ancient Roman mile 1610 34'; Olympic stadium =ith of an ancient Roman mile 201.2935 Stadium = of an ancient Roman mile . . 161 0348 Stadium = 1 1 00th part of a degree . . . . 111.2 Jewish risin, ofwhich 71= an ancient Roman mile 214.713 Gallic leuca = ancient Roman mile . . . 2415.522 German rant, or common league in France = 2 Gallic leuca 4831.044 Persian parasanga = 2 Gallic leagues . . 4831.044 Egyptian s•hcenos = 4 ancient Roman miles 6441.392 German league, or that of Scandinavia = 2 rasts 9662.088 The mile, or league of Germany = 200 Rhenish yards 8239.846 Great Arabian mile, used in Palestine in the time of the Crusades, rated at 11 ancient Roman mile 2415.713 Modern Roman mile 1621466 Modern Greek mile of 7 Olympic stadia . . 1409.0545 Modern French league = 2,500 toises . . 532S.75 Mile of Turkey, and the common werst of Russia, supposing it seven Olympic 1409.0545 League of Spain = 4 ancient Roman miles . 6441.392 Large league of Spain = 5 ditto 8051 74