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A quart 70.5 cubic inches. 



A gallon 282. 



A barrel, beer measure, is 10152 



A barrel, ale measure, is 9024 



A barrel, country measure, is 9588 



A hogshead, beer measure, is 15228 



A hogshead, ale measure, is 13336 



A hogshead, country measure, is 14382 



A pint, dry measure, is 33.6 cubic inches. 



A quart G7.2 



A pottle 134.4 



A gallon 268.8 



A peck, 537.6 



A Winchester bushel 2150.42 



A heaped bushel is one third more. 



A quarter 17203.36 



Five quarters make a way or load ; two loads, a last of 

 wheat. 



A bushel of wheat, at a mean, weighs 60 pounds, of bar- 

 ley 50, of oats 38. 



A chaldron of coals is 3fi heaped bushels, weighing about 

 2988 pounds. ' 



Ten yards of inch pipe contain exactly an ale gallon, 

 weighing 10| pounds. Emerson. 



The old Standard wine gallon of Guildhall contains 224 

 cubic inches. 



It is conjectured, that some centuries before ^he conquest, 

 a cubic foot of water weighing looo ounces, 32 cubic feet 

 weighed iooo pounds or a ton ; that the same quantity was 

 a tun of liquids, and a boghead 8 cubic feet, or 1382* 

 cubic incles, one sixtythird of which was 219.4 inches, 

 or a gallon. A quarter of wheat was a quarter of a ton, 

 weighing about 500 pounds, a bushel one eighth of this, 

 equivalent to a cubic foot of water. A chaldron of coals 

 was a ton, and weighed 2000 pounds. Barlow. 



At present, 12 wine gallons of distilled water weigh exactly 

 100 pounds avoirdupois. 



Scotch Measures. 



An ell is 37.2 E. inches. 



A fall 223.2 



A furlong 8928. 



A mile 71424. 



A link 8.928 * 



A chain, or short rood 892.8 E- inches. 

 A long rood 1339-2 



An acre is 55.353.6 square feet, English, or 

 1.27 English acre. 



A gill is 

 A mutchkin 

 A choppin 

 A pint 

 A quart 

 A crallon 



6.462 cubic inches E. 



25.85 



51.7 

 103.4 

 206.8 

 827.23 



A hogshead 13235.7, or I6 gallons. 



By the act of union, 12 Scotch gallons are reckoned 

 equal to an English barrel, or 9588 cubic inches, instead of 

 9927. 



A lippie or feed is 200.345 cubic inches 

 English. 



Old French Measures. 



A point is .0 148025 E. inch, or nearly -j^. 

 A line .088815, or nearly -^. 

 An inch 1.06578, or -^-j^y' °'" t?* 

 Thus, if a tall man were six feet four, French measure, 



81 

 he would be precisely six feet nine, English, And — i^ 



76 



9X9 



4X19 



A foot 12.78933. 



An ell 46.8947, or 44 French inches; 

 or, according to Vega, 43.9. 



A sonde 63.9967, or 5 French feet, about 

 I E. fathom. Bonne, E. M. 



A toise 76.7360, or 6 French feet. 



A former comparison made it 76.7 1. Ph. tr. 1742. 185. 

 The Bothnian toise was found too short by ^y or ->^ line; 

 but this was supposed to be froin its having been acciden- 

 tall injured. Laeondamine. 



Aperche 230.2080, or 18 French feet. 

 A perche, mesure royale, 22 French feet. 

 A league, 2282 toises, or ^'-5- of a degree. 

 A square inch, 1.13582 square inches, E. 

 An arpent was 100 square perches, about 



