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Gol'ms ', will have it to be thirty two. The \T>rah el Soiidah^ 

 o^^W ^^0-31] Black Teeh likewife, which the former obferves 

 to be no more than twenty one Digits in Length, is made by 

 the latter to be twenty feven. And moreover^, the Digit οίΚαΙ- 

 kafendas is equal to a Space taken up by feven Barley Corns, 

 placed fide-ways ; whereas fix * is the JMeafure according to 

 Gol'ms^s Author. Now as Kalkajendas is quoted by our Profeifor 

 Bernard, the Drah el Soudah^ (i. e. the Cubit of twenty one 

 Digits,), is. that, by which the iVi/^ was meafured : whereas in 

 the fame Author s DiflTertation upon the Nilefcope \ the Cubit 

 is there defined to be exprefsly of twenty eight Digits. The'Oenot^^ 

 in giving us an Account of the dayly Increale, reckons by 

 a Teek of twenty four Digits ; though according to a like 

 Account , which I had from Signore Gahrieli, the Venetian 

 Gentleman above-mentioned, the Teelz is there exprefsly of 

 i8 Inches ^ ; fomewhat lefs than that, which Dr. Bernard"" tells 

 us he faw the Model of in Manifidas. By the Length and Divifion 

 of the Mikeas, the Teeh ftiould be ftill longer. " The MikeaSy 

 " (fays a curious Perfon^, in a Letter to me ixom Kairo,) is a 

 "Pillar of 5-8 Engl'ifiVQQt high, divided into three Geome- 



Hoc rnenfuseft olim Hamartis Eh Cottahi fpatium inter ΒΛ[ϊΛ}η & Cufam. 2. Hafem&us, qui 



6 CubitHs Major nuncupatur, digitorum 24. Digitus vero occupat 7 Hordea lata, auc 



7 X 7 — 49 Pilos burdonis. Illo vero Cubito aeftimatio verfat in Jure Mobammedico. Idem 

 teftatur Maruphidas. 3. BelaUus, Hafcnuo minor. 4. Cubitus Niger, BeLiUo cedet digitis 

 2|, ab ^thiope quodam Rafidi Principis a latere nomen & modum fuum habet. Meniura 

 iEdificiorum, Nilometri, merciumque prctioHirum. f. Jofippstts, \ digiti minor Cubito 

 Nigra. ^ 6. Chorda five Afuba , brevior Cubito Nigra i| digiti. 7. Maharanius Cubitus, 

 2| Cubiti Nigri , foilis menfurandis Mamoue Principe imperatus. Vid. Edv. Bernard, de 

 Menfuris. p.217. i Vid. ut fupra. p.218. 2 Vid. ut fupra. p. 220. 3 Qu^ilibet Cubitus 

 continet viginti ofto digitos donee compleatur elevatio aqux ad duodecim Cubitos. Deinde 

 Cubitus fie viginti quatuor digitorum. Quando igitur volunt fupponere hanc elevationcm 

 pertigiile ad iexdccim Cubitos, diftribuunt duos Cubitos redundances, qui continent viginti 

 odlo digitos, inter duodecim Cubitos, quorum unufquiique continet viginti quatuordigi- 

 tos, ficque fit quilibet Cubitus viginti odoCubitorum. Kalk, ex tradud^. V. CI. jf. Gagnier. 

 4 See his Travels in EngUp). p. 232. j June 29. N.S. 17 14. The Nile was y Cubits high, 

 ytme loth it increaled 3 Inches. 



6 Poteft ex modulo Marufidx. in MS. ^abico Bibliotheca: noftrx Cubitus Hafenuus uncias 

 yiiiglicanas 28, 9. De Meni. p. 219. 7 This Gentleman was the late Mr. Tlmnas Humes^ 

 who had been a great many Years a Fador at Kairc, and took the Meafures and Defigns 

 of raoft of the Egyptwi Antiquities. 



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