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 measure is three-fourths of an inch, or 4 barley corns laid breadthways.
A hair's breadth is the 48th of an inch.
A barleycorn is .00217th of a cubic inch, or about 460 make a cubic inch, or 8 to an inch in length.
A geometrical pace is 4.4 feet English, and an English mile contains 1,200, or 1,760 yarda, or 5,280 feet.
The Paris foot is 9 lines shorter than the English foot, or 0.91 to 1.
The Roman foot was 0.915.
The Rhineland or Leyden foot is 0.86925 English. A Scotch mile contains 1,500 pacea.
A German mile 4,000. A Swedish and Danish mile 5,000. The Ruaaian mile 750 paces.
2,50A. great league in France is 3,030 paces, and a mean league A0 nautical league ia one-twentieth of a degree. A hand used for horses is 4 inchea.
A degree of latitude is 69 one-seventh English miles at the equator.
A nail's breadth is the 16th of a yard, or 2Y4 inches.
A surveyor's chain is 4 poles, or 66 feet, divided into 100 links of 7.92 inches. A square chain is 16 poles, and 10 square Chains are an acre.
640 acres are a square mile; and 4,840 square yards are an acre, 169.587ards each way.
The Irish acre 7,840 square yards.
A French argent live-sixths of an English acre.
The Scotch acre 1.27 English.
121 Iriah acres are equal to 196 English.
48 Scotch acres are equal to 61 English.
11 Irish miles are equal to 14 English.
80 Scotch miles and equal to 91 English.
The Turkish dreah, or pik, is 3 palmi, or 26.41 inches, and the lesser pik is 19.03 inches.
The jaghire is 10.46 English inches. A cawney is rather more than an acre. * A hide of land was one plow's work.
An ox-gang is 15 acres, or as much as an ox can plow in a year.
The long-line adopted iu the navy is 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 is 36.9413 French inches, or 39.371 English, or 3.2389 feet.
In Greece, a digit was three-fourths of an inch, a cubit 13% inches, and a large cubit 18% inches; a pace 2 yards and 51, an inch, a atadium 201 yards 1 foot 3 and two-fifths inches; 8 and two-thirds stadia a mile nearly. The ple thron, 10,000 square A Bengal coca is 6 000 feet, or 1 mile 240 yards. The haut or cubit is 18 inches.
A baggah of laud is 1,600 square yards, about a third of an acre.
A span was 10.944 inches.
was 10 feet, 11 and one third inches.
A Sabbath day's journey was 1,155 yards or about two thirds of a mile. A day's journey was 3374 miles.
The Egyptian cubit, or ardub, was 21.888 inches. The Greek foot waa 1274 inchea.
The Hebrew foot was 1.212 English feet. The Hebrew cubit 1.817; the sacred cubit 2 English feet; and the great cubit 11 English feet.
The stadium, 625feet; and the milliarinm, 5,000 feet. The Amsterdam foot is .927; and the ell 2.233.
The Berlin foot .992.
The Bologna foot .125.
The Brabant ell 2.268.
The•ffrusaele foot .95.
The Chinese 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 5.219 feet.
The Portuguese foot .952.
The Madrid foot .915.
The Moscow foot .928.
The Neapolitan mile, four German miles, or one-sixtieth of a degree: The Roman palm .733. The Roman foot .966.
The Roman mile one seventy-filth of a degree.
The geographical or Italian mile is 1,000 geometrical paces, or five-sixths of an English mile.
The Roman braccio is four palms.
The canna eight palma.
The Russian worst is 3,508 English feet, about two-thirda of a mile.
The Scotch ell is 37 2-10 inches.
The Scotch mile 5,952 feet.
The Spanish league 4 miles Engliah.
The Swedlah foot 1.073 English 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.
Tne Levant pig is three-fifths of the French ell. The Veuetian ell is eight-fifteentha of the French ell.