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Nor is it the Truer, for having been taken from any 
other Record : For it the Numbers of Acres, accord- 
ding to the faid Account, in each Shire, be put toge- 
ther, they exceed not 39 Millions and a quarter : Which 
Number, tho’ it comes much nearer to the Truth than 
any of the former, yet is a great deal fhort of it. 
For however, according to vulgar Computation, En- 
gland, , or South Britain , is reckon’d in length but 305 
Miles 5 and in breadth, about 290 Miles: Neverthelefs, 
it appears by an exadt Wheel-Meafure, That from New 
Haven in the South of England to London , are 56 mea~ 
fared Miles 5 and that from thence by a ftrait Line con- 
tinued to Berwick in the North , are 339 of the fame 
meafured Miles ^ in all 395 meafured Miles, the True 
length of England. And again, that from the South Fore- 
land in the Eajl, to the Lands-end in Cornwall, are a- 
bout 367 Miles of the fame Wheel-Meafure, the True 
breadth of England. 
This being known, it is eafy without any laborious 
and coftly Survey, to know alfo, how many Square 
Miles, and confequently how many Acres are contained 
in England , or Great Britain *, to wit, in the following 
manner. 
If a Line be drawn on a Chart of England, from the Cee Tab j 
South Foreland in Kent to Berwick 5 and from the two" 
Ends of this Line, two more Lines meeting at the Lands 
End in Cernwal, they will make the Triangle ABC: 
Which Triangle, in that it excludeth as much more of 
the Land, as it includeth of the Se3, as may anfvver the 
fmall Number of Miles obtained by the Curvity cf the 
Roads * it may therefore be allow’d to be equal to the 
Area of England or South Britain. 
Next, if to the Triangle ABC, another Similar and 
Equal Triangle BCD be added ; both together make 
the Rhomboid A BDC. Which being divided at E F, 
maketh the Rhomboids ACEF, and BD £ F, Equal 
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