MEASURES OF LENGTH.
Measures in length are the distance of one •object from another in some agreed standard.
A line is the tenth of a digit, and the 100th of a foot.
A digit meaaure is three-fourtha of an inch, or 4 barley corns laid breadthwaya.
A hair's breadth ie the 48th of an inch.
A barleycorn ia .00217th of a cubic inch, or about 460 make a cubic inch, or 3 to an inch in length.
A geometrical pace is 4.4 feet Engliah, and an English mile containa 1,200, or 1,760 yarde, or 5,280 feet.
The Paris foot ia 9 lines shorter than the Engliah foot, •or 0.91 to 1.
The Roman foot was 0.915.
The Rhineland or Leyden foot ia 0.86925 English. A Scotch mile containa 1,500 paces.
A German mile 4,000. A Swedish and Danish mile 5,000. 'The Ruasian mile 750 Imes.
A great league in France is 3,000 paces, and a mean league A nautical league is one-twentieth of a degree. A hand uaed for horses is 4 inchee.
A degree of latitude ie 69 one-seventh English milea at the equator.
A nail'e breadth is the 16th of a yard, or 2X inches.
A aurveyor'a chain is 4 poles, or 66 feet, divided into 100 Nuke of 7.92 inchea. A square chain is 16 poleZ, and ID square chains are an acre.
640 ncree are a square mile; and 4,840 aquare yards are .an acre, 169.58 yards each way.
The Irish acre 7,840 sqpare yards.
A French arpeut five-sixths of an English acre.
The Scotch acre 1.2'7 Englieh.
121 Irish acres are equal to 196 English.
48 Scotch acres are equal to 61 English.
11 Irish miles are equal to 14 Engliah.
BO Scotch miles are equal to 91 English.
The Turkish dreah, or pik, is 3 palmi, or 26.41 inches, and the lesser pik ia 19.03 inchea.
The jag,hire is 10.46 English inchee. A cawney ia rather .more than an acre.
A hide of land was one plow'e work.
An ox-gang is 15 acres, or as much ae an ox can plow in a year.
The long-line adopted in the navy la 48 feet.
A sea league is 3.4536 miles, or the 20th of a degree. 6,078 feet are a sea mile.
A palm is 3 inches. A fathom 6 feet.
The French metre ie 36.9413 French inches, or 39.371 English, or 3.2389 feet.
In Greece, a digit wae three-fourtha of an inch, a cubit 13y2 inchee, and a large cubit 18X inches; a pace 2 yards and X an inch, a atadinm 201 yarde 1 foot 3 and two-fiftha inches ; 8 and two-thirds etadia a mile nearly. The ple
thron, 10,000 square feet.
A Bengal cosa is 6 000 feet, or 1 mile 240 yards. The haut or cubit ie 18 inchee.
A baggah of land ia 1,600 square yards, about a third of .an acre.
A span was 10.944 inches.
Ezekiel's reed was 10 feet, 11 and one-third inches.
A Sabbath day's jonrney was 1,155 yards or about two thirds of a mile. A day'a jonrney was 33X miles.
The Egyptian cnhit, or ardnb, wae 21.888 inches. The Greek foot waa 12X inches.
The Hebrew foot waa 1.212 Englieh feet. The Hebrew cubit 1.817; the sacred cubit 2 Engliah feet; and the great cubit 11 Engliah feet.
The etadium, 625 feet; and the milliarium, 5,000 feet. The Ameterdam foot ie .927; and the ell 2.233.
'The Berlin foot .992.
'The Bologna foot .125.
'The Brabant ell 2.268.
The Bruaeels foot .95.
The Chineee imperial foot 1.05.
'The Chinese lie is 629 yards.
The Turkish foot is 1.165.
The Florence foot .995.
'The Geneva foot 1.919.
The Hamburgh foot .933.
'The Italian mile 5,299 feet, 'The Portugueae foot .952.
'The Madrid foot .915.
The Moscow foot .928.
The Neapolitan mile, four German miles, or one-aixtieth -of a degree.
The Roman palm .733. The Roman foot .966.
The Roman mile one aeventy-fifth of a degree.
The geographical or Italian mile ia 1,000 geometrical paces, or five-sixths of an English mile.
The Roman braccio is four palms.
The canna eight palms.
The Rueeian werat ia 3,508 Engliah feet, about two-thlrds cf a mile.
The Scotch ell is 37 2-10 inches.
The Scotch mile 5,952 feet.
The Spanish league 4 milea Engliah.
The Swedish foot 1.073 Englieh feet.
The Venice foot 1.14.
The Venice ell 2.089.
The Vienna foot 1.036.
The Vienna post mile 24.888.
The Wirtemburg foot 11.28.
The Levant pig is three-fiftha of the French ell. The Venetian ell ie eight-fifteentha of the French ell.