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From this table it appears, that the ancient 

 \Velfli mile confifted of 3000 leaps or yards, 

 nearly a mile and three quarters of the pre- 

 fent meafure. 



LAND MEASURE. 



The ancient confutation of Wales thus ex- 

 plains the meafure of a lawful acre. Four 

 feet in length of the fliort yoke; eight in the 

 field yoke; twelve in the lateral yoke; fixteen 

 in the long yoke; and a rod equal in length 

 with that in the hand of the driver, with his 

 other hand upon the middle knob of that 

 yoke ; and as far as that reaches on each fide 

 of him is the breadth of an acre; and thirty 

 times that is it's length. 



It is otherwife defined thus: fixteen feet 

 are in the length of the long yoke; fixteen 

 yokes make the length of an acre; and two* 

 make it's breadth. 



In the mort yoke there were two oxen 

 a-breaft; in the next, four; in the next, fix; 

 and in the laft, eight. This method of yoking 

 was in ufe, in fome parts of the country, in- 

 the laft century. 



Neither meadow, pafture, nor wood land 

 ' were included in the acre; for only the ara- 

 ble ground was meafured, that of every other 

 defcription being deemed waits. 



4 Erw 



