152 CATALOGUE. — PHILOSOPHY AND AETS, PRACTICAL MECHAVICS. 



-\ E. acio, in the measure commonly used 

 about Paris. An arpent, mesure royule, was 

 about l^ E. acre. 



A cubic inch is 1.21063 cubic inches, E. 



A litron 65.34 



A boisseau 1045.44, or l61itrons. 



A minot 2090.875, or 3 boisseaux, or 

 nearly. an E. bushel. 

 , A mine 4181.75, or 2 minots. 



A septier 8363.5, or 2 mines, or 6912 

 inches, Fr. For oats the septier was double. 



A muid 100362. or 12 septiers. 



A ton of shipping contains 42 cubic feet. 



New French Measures. Journals R. I., 1. 130. 



The barbarous terms of the new nomenclature are here 

 reduced to a form more consistent with their etymology. 



English Inches. 



Millimetre .03937 



Centimetre .3937 1 



Decimetre 3.937 10 



Metre 3.281 feet 39-37100 



Decametre 393.71000 



Hecatometre 3937.10000 



Chiliometre 39371.00000 



Myriometre 393710.00000 



A metre is 1.093(54 yards, or neaily 1 yard, 1^ nail, or 

 443.2959 lines Fr. or .513074 toise. 

 A decametre is 10 yards 2 feet 9-7 inches. 

 A hecatometre 1 09 y. if. i in. 



A chiliometre 4 furl. 213 y. 1 f. 10.2 in. 

 A micrometre 6 miles 1 f. 158 y. O f. 6 in. 

 8 chiliometres are nearly five miles. 

 An inch is .0254 m. 2441 inches 62 metres, looo feet 

 nearly 305 metres. 



An are, a square decametre, is 3.95 

 perches, E. 



A hecatare, 2 acres 1 rood, 35.4 p. 



Cubic Inches, E. 

 Millilitre .06103 



Centilitre .61028 



Decilitre 6.10280 



Litre, a cubic decimetre 6l .02800 



Decahtre 610.28000 



2 



Cubic inches, E. 

 Hecatolitre 6102.80000 



Chiliolitrc 61028.00000 



Myriolitre 610280.00000 



A litre is nearly 2J wine pints; 14 decilitres are nearly 

 3 wine pinu; achiliolitre is 1 tun, 12.75 wine gallons. 



A decistere for fire wood is 3.5317 cubic 

 feet, E. 



A stere, a cubic metre, 35.3171 



Various Measures, ancient and modern. 



From Folkes, Raper, Shuckburgh, Vega, 

 Hutton, Cavallo, and others. 



Ancient Measures. 



Arabian, foot 1.095 Engl. H. 



„ , , . , C 1.144 H. 



liabylonian, toot < 



■' i 1.135 H. 



Drusian, foot ] .090 H. 



Eg3'ptian, foot 1.421 H. 



Egyptian, stadium 730.8 



Greek, foot 1.009 H. 



1.006 "^FoTkes, 1^ 



1.007 3 Roman f. 

 1.007 C. 



Greek, phyleterian foot 1.167 H. 

 Hebrew, foot 1.212 H. 



Hebrew, cubit 1.817 H. 



Hebrew, sacred cubit 2.002 H. 

 Hebrew, great cubit=6 common cubits. H. 

 Macedonian, foot 1.160 H. 



Natural foot .814 H. 



Ptolemaic = Greek foot. H. 



Roman, foot .970 Bernard. 



.967 

 .966 



^ Picard and 

 I. G 



reaves. 



.966 ■> 

 .967 3 



Folkes. 



.970 before Titus. 



Raper. 

 .965 after Titus. 



Raper. 



