1887.] 



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[Taylor. 



"module" = 3.98064 decimetres ; the "rod" = 3.18451 metres ; the 

 "chain" = 2 Ml Gl deccnnetres ; the " imlong" = 2.0d80d Jiectometres ; 

 the "mile" — l.GoOil kilometres ; and tlie "league" = 1.30437 myria- 

 metres. 



For those measures in most common use, that is foi' those clustering 

 immediately around the Module, it v.-ould doubtless be found highly con- 

 venient to give denominations to the halves and quarters ; and thus con- 

 form them to the universal popular tendency to binary divisions. "We 

 therefore propose the following supplementary table ; not to be on any 

 account incorporated with the preceding, nor in any respect to modify it ; 

 but to retain always its subordinate character. 



Our tables of area, or surface measure, would of course be derived 

 directly from our linear measures, by the familiar law of squares. 



Table of Square Measure. 



For popular purposes, however, it would be necessary, or convenient, to 

 have more numerous denominations of area measure ; and a less rapid 

 progression than that of unders, given in the above merely geometrical 



