MEASURE. 
eighth ofthis, <or a bushel, was eqaivalent 
to a cubic foot of water. A chaldron of 
coals weighed 2000 pounds, and was a 
ton. 
The French, acting upon a general system 
of innovation during the late Revolution in 
that country, formed new measures, the 
nomenclature of which is generally disap- 
proved of by the learned of England, and 
Dr. Young ventures to give thesu, in some 
degree amended, as follow : 
English inches. 
Milloraetre .03937 
Centimetre .39371 
Decimetre., .3.937 10 
Metre 39.37100 
Pecametre 393.71000- 
Jiecatometre 39.37.10000 
Chilionietre 39371.00000 
Myriometre.. 393710.00000 
The metre is 1.09364 yards, or nearly 
1 yard, li nail, or 443,2959 lines French, or 
.51.3074 toises. 
A decametre is 10 yards, 2 feet, 9.7 
inches. 
A hecatometrc,,109 yards, 1 foot, 1 inch. 
A chilionretre, 4 furlongs, 213 yards, 1 
foot, 10.2 inches. 
A micrometre, 6 miles, 1 furlong, 156 
yards, 6 inches. 
Eight chiliometres are nearly 5 miles. 
An inch is .02.54 metre ; 2441 inches, 62 
metres; 1000 feet, nearly 305 metres. 
An arc, a square decametre, is 3.95 
perches. 
A hecatre, 2 acres, 1 raod, 35,4 perches. 
Cubic inches Engliph. 
Millilitre .06103 
Centilitre .61028 
liecilltre 6.10280 
Litre, a cubic decimitre 61.02800 i 
Decalitre *610.28000 
Hccatolitre 6102.80000 
Chiliolitre 6:1028,00000 
Myriolitre 610280.00000 
Two and |th vyine pints are about a 
litre ; 3 wine pints are nearly 14 decilitres ; 
a chiliolitre is one tun, 12.7.5 wine gallons. 
3.5317 cubic feet make a decistere, a 
measure for fire-wood. 
A sterc, a cubic metre, 3.5.3171. 
We sliail now present the reader of this 
article with various ancienl and modern 
measures, which were selected froip the best 
authorities. 
ANCIENT MEASURES. 
Arabianfoot 1.09S 
Egyptian foot 1-431 
Egyptian stadium., 730.8 
Greek foot 1.009 
- — — phyletarian foot 1.167 
Hebrew foot....; 1.212 
cubit.... 1.817 
sacred cubit 2.002 
great cubit = six common cubits. 
Natural foot .814 
Roman foot .970 
(af.er Titus) .965 
(from rules) ,9672 
■ — ^....(fi'om buildings) .9681 
(from a stone) .9696 
Roman mile of Pliny 4840.5 
— of Strabo 4903. 
Sicilian foot of Archimedes ,730 
MODERN MEASURES, 
Amsterdam foot ,927 
ell.,.' 2,233 
Antwerp foot .940 
Barcelona foot .992 
Basle foot .944 
Bavarian foot .968 
Berlin foot .992 
Bologna foot 1.244 
Brabant ell in Germany 2.268 
Brescia foot 1.560 
Brescian braccio 2.092 
Brussels foot.... .902 
— ^ — • — greater ell 2.278 
lesser ell 2.245 
Chitia mathematical foot 1.127 
Imperial foot 1.051 
Chinese li 606. 
Const'dTitinople foot 2.195 
Copeuhagen foot 1.049 
Dresden foot ,. .929 
ell— 2 feet 1.857 
Florence foot.. .995 
braccio 1.900 
Genoa palm .812 
canna 7.300 
Geneva foot 1.919 
Hamburgh foot .933 
Lisbon foot .952 
Madrid foot .915 
— -vara 3.263 
Malta p-ttlm ,915 
Moscow foot .928 
Naples palm .861 
canna 6.908 
Paris foot 1.066 
Paris metre 3.281 
Rome palm .733 
foot .966 
deto (X foot)... .0604 
-oncio (Jjfoot)... .0805 
— — palrao ^ . 251 ;-, 
palmo di architettura ... ,.7325 
