.248 French Weights and Meafures. 



weight neceffary to be employed, and will anfwer with great 



advantage for that purpofe *. 



AGRARIAN MEASURES. 



Centiare. Declare. The centiare and declare are only fub- 

 idivifions of the are. The firft is equal to a fquare metre. 

 The fecond is equal to ten. 1 



Are. The unity of meafures for land or furveying. It 

 is equivalent to a fquare decametre, or a hundred fquare 

 metres (about 25 fquare toifes). It is well fuited for the 

 meafurement of the valuable ground in cities, gardens, and 

 fmall poffeffions, or fuch as are of a moderate extent. The 

 denomination of deca-are y or decare by fhortening it, will 

 fcarcely be of any ufe. 



Heclare. This is a fuperficies containing a hundred ares. 

 It may be employed for meafuring lands of a certain extent. 

 The heclare is fomewhat lefs than double the large acre of 

 100 fquare perches, the perch being 22 feet. 



The kilare is of no importance. 



Myriare. I qual to ten thoufand ares, or a fquare the 

 fide of which is a kilometre. It is confequently proper for 

 the meafurement of lands of little value, fuch as commons, 

 &c. when it is not neceflary to exprefs them in fquares of 

 long meafure. 



MEASURES FOR FIRE WOOD. 



Stere. A quantity equal to a cubic metre. By giving 

 the length of a metre to billets, nothing more will be necef- 

 fary, in order to obtain the ftere, than to range them within 



* The utility of the doubles and halves of each of the weights, which 

 compofe the decimal feries, may be readily conceived. By forming of the 

 whole one feries, it will be feen that it is extremely analogous to that of 

 fiic ancient weights, for which it may be lubftitutcd with ^reat advantage 

 in ali commercial traafac-tions.. 



a fquare 



