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MODERN MEASURES.

Amsterdam foot .927 ell 2.233 Antwerp foot .940 Barcelona foot .992 Basle foot .944 Bavarian foot .968 Berlin foot .992 Bologna foot 1.244 Brabant ell in Germany . . 2.268 Brescia fbot 1.560 Brescian braccio 2.092 Brussels foot .902 greater ell 2,278 -- lesser ell . 2.245 China mathematical foot . . 1.127 -- Imperial foot 1.051 Chinese li 606.

Constantinople foot 2.195 Copenhagen foot 1.049 Dresden foot .929 ell = 2 feet 1.857 Florence foot .995 braccio 1.900Genoa palm .812 -- canna 7.300 Geneva foot 1.919 Hamburgh foot .933 Lisbon foot .952 Madrid foot .915 vara 3.263 Malta palm .915 Moscow foot .928 Naples palm .861 - canna 6.908 Paris foot 1.066 Faris metre 3.281 Rome palm .733 foot .966 deto . . . foot) .0604 oncio .. foot) .0805 palmo . . . . . . .2515 palmo di architettUra • .7325 canna di architettura . 7.325 Rome staiolo 4.212 -canna dei mericanti (8 palms) 6.5365

braccio dei mercanti(4palms)2.7876 braccio di tessitor di tela 2.0868 -braccio di architettura . 2.561 Russian archive 2.3625 - arschin 2.3333 - verschock, iarschin .1458 Stockholm foot 1.073 Turin foot 1.676 - ras 1.958 - trabuco .. . 10,085 Tyrol foot 1.096 -- ell 2.639 Venice foot 1.137 braccio of silk • . . 2.108 --- ell 2.089 - braccio of cloth • . • . • 2.250 Vienna foot 1.036 ------. ell 2.557 - post mile 24888.

Warsaw foot 1.169 The yoke of land, a description of measure in Austria, contains 1600 square fathoms " 1 metz, or bushel, 1.9471 cubic feet. 1 eimer = 40 kannen = 1.792 cubic feet of Vienna ; 1 fass = 10 eimer." In Sweden, a kanne contains 106 cubic Swedish inches.