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CUBIC MEASURE. 



1728 Cubic Inches make .... 



27 -Feet 



40 of Rough Timber 

 50 of H\3\vn do. 



108 



128 . . 



1 Cubic Foot. 

 1 Yard. 



1 Load. 



Stack of Wood. 

 Cord. 



HEAPED MEASURES. 



Our market-gardeners, and retailers | sale of heaped measure, or by any mul- 



3 tiple or aliquot part thereof, filled in all 

 parts -as nearly to the level of the brim 

 as the size and shape of the articles will 

 admit ; but nothing herein shall prevent 

 the sale by weight of any article hereto- 



of fruit, potatoes, &C M generally vend 

 their commodities as if the Act of Par- 

 liament, $ and 6 Will. IV. c. 63. did not 

 exist. By this statute selling by heaped 

 measure is forbidden under a penalty of 



not more than 40s. for every such sale. 

 Section 8 provides that, as some articles 

 heretofore sold by heaped measure are 

 incapable of being stricken, and may not 

 inconveniently be sold by weight, it is 

 enacted, that all such articles may hence- 

 forth be sold -by a bushel-measure, cor- 

 responding in shape with the bushel pre- 

 scribed by the 5 Geo. IV. c. 74, for the 



WOOD 



English Measure. Wood-fuel is as- 

 sized into shids, billets, faggots, fall- 

 wood, and cord- wood. A shid is of fall- 

 wood and cord-wood. 



A shid is to be four feet long, and ac- 

 cording as they are marked and notched, 

 their proportion must be in the girth 

 viz., if they have but one notch, they 

 must be sixteen inches in the girth ; if 

 two notches, twenty-three inches ; if three 

 notches, twenty-eight inches; if four 

 notches, thirty-three inches ; and if five 

 notches, thirty-eight inches about. 



JBillets are to be three feet long, of 

 which there should be three sorts, 

 namely, a single cask, and a cask of two. 

 The first is seven inches, the second ten 



MEASUKE 



1000 Billets of Wood = 

 10 Cwt. of Wood 

 1 Cord of Wood 

 100 ffis. of Wood 



MECONO'PSIS. (From mekon, the poppy, 

 and opsis, like. Nat. ord., Poppyworts 

 [Papaveracese]. Linn., l'3-Polyandria 1- 

 Monogynia.) 



Hardy herbaceous perennials. Divisions of the 

 plant in spring, and seeds (which ripen freely), at 

 the same time ; rich, sandy soil. 

 Jtf. Cn'mbrica( Welsh). 1. Yellow. June, England. 



crassifo'iia (thick-leaved). 1. Orange, red. 



California. 1833. 



diphy'lla (two-leaved). J. Yellow. June. 



Western United States. 1854. 



fore sold by heaped measure. The 5 Geo. 

 IV. c. 74, thus referred to, enacts, by 

 section 7, that for potatoes, fruit, <fcc., the 

 bushel shall be made round, with a plain 

 and even bottom, be nineteen inches 

 and a half from outside to outside, and 

 capable of containing 801fo. weight of 

 water. 



inches, and the third fourteen inches 

 about. They are sold by the hundred of 

 five score. 



Faggots are to be three feet long, and, 

 at the band, of twenty-four inches about, 

 besides the knot; of such faggots fifty 

 go to the load. 



Savins and Spray-wood are sold by 

 the hundred, which are accounted a load. 

 Cord-wood is the bigger sort of fire-wood; 

 and it is measured by a cord or line, 

 whereof there are two measures that of 

 fourteen feet in length, three feet in 

 breadth, and three feet in height ; the 

 other is eight feet in length, four feet in 

 height, and four feet in breadth. 



OF WOOD. 



= 1 Cord. 



= 1 Cord. 



= i Chaldron of Coals. 



= 1 Quintal of Wood. 



M. heterophy'lla (various-leaved). 1. Orange, rod. 



California. 1833. 

 Walli'chii (Dr. Wallich's). 2f . Blue. June, 



Sikkim Himalaya. 



MEDE'OLA. (Named after Medea, the 

 sorceress. Nat. ord., Parids [Trilliaceae]. 

 Linn., 6-HeXandria 3-Trigynia. Allied to 

 Trillium.) 



Hardy herbaceous. Division of the plant in 

 spring ; rich, sandy soil. 



M. Virgi'nica (Virginian). $. Yellow. June. 

 Virginia. 1759. 



