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br new feet, and the inches, lines, fee.may be'con¬ 
verted into old inches, primes, fee* by constantly 
multiplying by 12. ’ , 
LAND MEASURE^ 
The present land measure being made by a chain 
decimally divided, may continue to be measured as 
it now is, by a chain of 66 feet divided into 100 
links, each link being 6 standard inches iong^ 
which is 7 inches old measure, the present 
length of the link, and the area may be expres¬ 
sed in square chains, and decimal parts of a chain, 
and may be converted into acres, roods and perch¬ 
es, as now customary 0 ^ ; 
CUBIC MEASURE OR MEASURES OF CAPAGITYo 
Let the standard unit or foot cubed, be called a 
bushel, and a pint the least measure of capacity, 
and let the series be as in the following 
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