MEASURES. Measure is of length, breadth, and thickness, estimated by known lengths, or compared by other known quantities: Thus there are 12x12x12-1728 cubic inches in a cubic foot; and 3x3x3=27 cubic feet in a cubic yard. The following collated from the Library of Refer ence, will show at a glance, the measures of capacity, weight, length, and time, both ancient and modern. Measures of capacity are : The Imperial gallon is 277,274 cubic inches. A gill, or quarter of a pint, ia 8% inches.
The Imperial gallon contains 10 pounds avoirdupoia of distilled water, weighed in air, at 62°, with the barometer at 30 inchea. Two gallons a peck, eight a bushel, and eight bushels a quarter.
One English wine gallon is eqnal to .0833111 Imperial gallons.
One ale gallou-1.017045 Imperial.
One corn bushel-0.96943 Imperial.
One Imperial gallon-1.20032 wiue gallon.
One Imperial gallon-0.933241 ale gallon.
One Imperial gallon-1.03152 corn gallon.
An Imperial gallon is 4.843452 litres.
Heaped measure, per bushel, is 28153‘ cubic inches clear. The atandard bushel kept at Guildhall contains 2145.6 cubic inches of water, weighing 1131 ounces and 14 penny weights.
The Winchester bushel ia 181/4 inches diameter and 8 inches deep, containing 2150.42 cubic inches.
A quarter of corn is the fourth of a ton, and eight bush els, or two sacks.
A strike is four pecks.
1000 ounces of rain water are equal to about 7% gallons wine measure, or to a cubic foot.
7 pounds avoirdupois is a gallon of flour.
A chaldron of' coals is 58% cubic feet.
Twelve wine gallons of distilled water weigh 100 pounds avoirdupois.
Nineteen cubic inched of distilled water, at 50°, weigh 10 ouncea, Troy.
A cubic inch of distilled water at 62°, in a vacuum, ia 252.724 grains.
The Imperial measure for heaped goods contains 80 pounds avoirdupois of distilled water, and is 19fA inches from outside to outaide at the bottom; the heap to he in a cone at least six inches high from the outside; three mak ing a sack and twelve sacka a chaldron, which ought to weigh 28 hundredweight.
The Imperial dry bushel, when not heaped, is 2218.192 cubic inches; the peck 554.548; gallon 277.274, and quart 69.3185. The bushel is 8 inches deep, and 18.8 wide; with it hcap 6 inches high.
A tun is 2 pipes, 4 hogsheads, 3 puncheons, 8 barrels, or 26'2 gallons. A pipe of port is 138 gallons; of Liabon 140; Madeira 110: and sherry 120. The hogshead of claret ia 57
gallons, and the aum of Hock 36 gallons; Teneriffe 120, and Cape 20.
A tun of wine is 2 pipes, and each pipe 2 hogsheads of 63 gallons.
A tun of beer is two butts, and each butt 2 hogsheads of 54 gallons.
A bushel of wheat is 60 pouods, rye 53, barley 47, oats 38. peas 61, beans 63, clover seed 68, rape 48 pounds.
53 hundred weight is a chaldron at Newcastle, England. A ke,1 of 8 Newcastle chaldrone ia 15% London chaldrona. The imperial corn bushel of 2218.192 cubic inches, ia to the Winchester of 2150 42, as 32 to 31.
The Imperial coal bushel of 2816.459 inches is 1% inches more than the old coal bushel of 2814.9.
The Imperial wine measure is to the old meaaure ash to 6; 5 Imperial gallons being 6 wine gallons and one forty five hundredth over.
The new and old ale measures are as 60 to 59.
To convert old corn measure into new, multiply by .96943 or thirty-one thirty-seconda; wine by .83311 or five sixths ale by 1.01704 or fifty aixtieths.
Wood, the fuel of France, is sold by the corde of 576 sqnare feet: and 90 square cordes make what ia called a journal.
At 70° the specific gravity of water ia 0.99913; at 38° is 1.00113; and at 54° is 1.00064. The difference between 62° and 39° in a gallon of 277.276inches is one-third of a cubic inch.
A last is a commercial measure, of twelve barrels of soap, ashes, herriogs, etc.; ten quarters of corn, or two cart loads ; twenty-four barrels of gunpowder; twelve sacks of wool; and 1,700 pounds of flax or feathers.
A Scotch pint is four English pints.
A Scotch pint is 105 cubic inches, and a wheat firlot 21: Scotch Olt s.
The Scotch quart 206.8 cubic inchea.
A tab of butter is 84 pounds and a firkin 56 pounds. A Scotch boll ia au English sack.
A soldier's canteen contains three pints.
A litre ia 61.0279 English cubic inches, or 2% wine pints.
The stere, or cubical metre, is 35.3171 cubic feet English.
There are 545,26'70,000 cubical yEirda in a cubic mile, A Roman quadrantal was a cube containing BO pounds of water, or 48 sextariea and 8 congii. A gower was 7 pints. The Ephalt was the sixth part, or 1747.7 cubic inches, nearly an English cubic foot.
The Winchester bushel is 35.2466 litres. The stere is 35.317 cubic feet.