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FRENCH AND ENGLISH MEASURES COMPARED : 



BT PETER DELABIGARRE, Efq. 



IT may not be ufelefs to be acquainted with the references 

 of the French meafures to thofe of this country, as far as it 

 can help farmers in their refearches on various improvements 

 and procefTes made In foreign agriculture. 



We find often in different treatifes the names of meafures 

 which are not evaluated according to thofe ufed where we 

 live : therefore, without fuch calculated references we are 

 unable to determine our judgment or to balance an exa6l 

 refult, whether advantageous or not. 



The Enghlh foot ftands for 11 inches 3 lines and 25-100 

 of a line of a French foot. 



Fifteen fquare French feet are equal to feventeen Englifli. 

 Two acres of different extent are generally ufed in France ; 

 one for arable lands, the other for woods and forefts. 



The firff is compofed of 100 rods, but each rod of 18 feet 

 fquare, which gives 900 fquare fathoms to an acre. 



The fecond contains 100 rods, each rod of 22 feet fquarCj 

 which gives 1344 fquare fathoms. 



Thus an Englifh acre containing 1135 fquare French 

 fathoms, has 209 fathoms lefs than the foreft-acre above 

 mentioned. 



The Englifh yard contains only 2 French feet 5 inches 

 9 lines. 



