598 ANCIENT WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. 



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360,000 other manufacturers. In 17:>1, the quantity was in. 

 creased from twenty. three millions to thirty.two. 



The value of the wool annually manufactured in England is about 

 three millions sterling; it employs above a million persons, who 

 receive for their work about nine millions. 



Thread has been spun so fine as to be sold for j 4 an ounce; 

 lace for 40. 



The premiums annually proposed by the Society for the Encou. 

 ragement of Arts, enable us to form tome opinion of the present 

 gtate of our machinery and manufactures. Some of their objects 

 arc, a substitute for white lead paint, a red pigment, a machine 

 for carding silk, cloth made from hop stalks, paper made from raw 

 Yegetables, transparent paper, the prevention of accidents from 

 horses falling, cleaning turnpike roads, machines for raising coals, 

 and for making bricks, instruments for harpooning whales ; ma. 

 chines for reaping or mowing corn, for dibbling "heat, for thresh, 

 ing ; a family mill, a gunpowder mill, a quarry of millstones; and 

 a inotle of boring and blasting rocks 1802. 



[Luckombe's Tablet of Memory. Young's Nat. Phil. Edit. 



CHAP. IX. 



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TABLE OF ANCIENT MEASURES AND WEIGHTS. 



SECTION I. 



Ancient Measures. 



Arabian foot 1.005 Engl. Hutton 



( 1.14) Hutton 

 Babylonian, foot . { j J35 HuUon 



Drusian, foot . . 1.000 Hutton 

 Egyptian, foot 1.421 Hutton 



Kg>p'ian, stadium 730.8 



Greek, foot 1.009 Hutton 



i c\c\f* ^ 



} _ j- Folkes, 1 J Roman f. 

 1.007 Cavallo 



