MEASUR E. 
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Meafures of Capacity in Englifh cubic Inches. 
millilitre . • . ’06103 
Centilitre .... ’61028 
Decilitre - . , . . 6 102S0 
Litre, a cubic decimetre . . 61 02800 
Decalitre . , . . 61028000 
Hecatolitre . . • 6102-80000 
Chiliolitre « . . 61028-00000 
Myriplitre . . . 610280-00000 
A litre is nearly wine pints. Fourteen decilitres are 
nearly three wine pints. A chiliolitre is ope tun, 12-75 
wine-gallons. 
The Weights are formed in a fimjlar manner, which, for 
the fake of (bowing the whole fyftem at one view, we fhall 
here fet down. 
A gramme is the weight of a cubic centimetre of pure 
water at its maximum of denfity. It has been found 
equal to 18 827 French grains, of which 576 made 4.72-5 
Englifh ; and 4.89-5058 grammes make a pound of the 
ftandard of the mint at Paris. 
Milligramme is equal to 
Centigramme 
Decigramme 
Gramme . . 
Decagramme . 
Hecatogramme . 
Chiliogramme . 
Myriogramme 
.0154 Englifh gr. 
* 1 54-4 
*'5444 
15-4440 
154-4402 
1544-4023 
15444-0234 
154440-2344 
A decagramme is 6 dwts. 10*44 gr. troy; or 5-65 dr. avoir¬ 
dupois. A hecatogramme is 3 oz. 8-5 dr. avoirdupois. 
A chiliogramme is 2 lbs. 3 oz. 5 dr. avoirdupois. A my¬ 
riogramme is 22 lbs. 1*15 oz. avoirdupois; 100 myrio- 
grammes are 1 tun wanting 32 8 lbs. 
The ftandard of length in Holland, Flanders, Sweden, a 
good part of Germany, the Hans towns, and at Geneva, Frank¬ 
fort, See. is the ell ; but the ell, in all thefe places, differs 
from the old Paris ell. In Holland, it contains one Paris 
foot eleven lines, or four-fevenths of the Paris ell. The 
Flanders ell contains two feet one inch five lines and hajf 
a line ; or feven-twelfths of the Paris ell. The ell of Ger¬ 
many, Brabant, &c. is equal to that of Flanders. 
The Italian meafure is the bracchio, brace, or fathom. 
This obtains in the ftates of Modena, Venice, Florence, 
Lucca, Milan, Mantua, Bologna, See. but is of different 
lengths. At Venice, it contains one Paris foot eleven 
inches three lines, or eight fifteenths of the Paris ell. At 
Bologna, Modena, and Mantua, the brace is the fame as 
at Venice. At Lucca, it contains one Paris foot nine 
inches ten lines, or half a Paris ell. At Florence, it con¬ 
tains one foot nine inches four lines, or forty-nine hun¬ 
dredths of a Paris ell. At Milan, the brace for meafuring 
of filks is one Paris foot feven inches four lines, or four- 
ninths of a Paris ell ; that for woollen cloths is the fame 
with the ell of Holland. Laftly, at Bergamo, the brace 
is one foot feven inches fix lines, or five-ninths of a Paris 
ell. The ufual meafure at Naples, however, is the canna, 
containing fix feet ten inches and two lines, or one Paris 
ell and fifteen 1’eventeenths. 
The Spani/h meafure is the vara or yard, in fome places 
called the barra ; containing feventeen twenty-fourths of 
the Paris ell. But the meafure in Caftile and Valencia is 
the pan, fpan, or palm; which is ufed, together with the 
canna at Genoa. |n Arragon, the vara is equal to a Paris 
ell and a half, or five feet five inches fix lines. 
The Porluguefe meafure is the cavedos, containing two 
feet eleven lines, or four-fevenths of a Paris ell ; and the 
vara, an hundred and fix whereof make an hundred Paris 
elh. 
The Piedmontefe meafure is the ras, containing one Paris 
foot nine inches ten lines, or. half a Paris ell. In Sicily, 
their meafure is the canna, the fame with that of Naples. 
The Mufcovy meafures are the cubit, equal to one Paris 
foot four inches two lines; and the arcin, two whereof 
are equal to three cubits. 
The Turkifh and Levant meafures are the picq, contain¬ 
ing two feet two inches and two lines, or three-fifths of the 
Paris ell. The Chinele meafure, the cobre; ten whereof 
are equal to three Paris ells. In Perfia, and fome parts of 
the Indies, the gueze, whereof there are two kinds; the royal 
gueze, called alfo the gueze monkelfcr, containing two Paris 
feet ten inches eleven lines, or four-fifths of the Paris ell ; 
and the Ihorter gueze, called limply gueze, only two-thirds 
of the former. At Goa and Ormuz, the meafure is the 
vara, the fame with that of the Portuguele, having been 
introduced by them. In Pegu, and fome other parts of 
the Indies, the cando or candi, equal to the ell of Venice. 
At Goa, and other parts, they ufe a larger cando, equal 
to feventeen Dutch ells ; exceeding that of Babel and 
Balfora by § per cent, and the vera by C\. In Siam, they 
ufe the ken, iliort of three Paris feet by one inch. The 
ken contains two foks, the fok two keubs, the keub twelve 
nious or inches, the niou to be equal to eight grains of 
rice, i. e. to about nine lines. At Camboia, they ufe the 
hafter; in Japan, the tatam; and the fpan on fome of the 
coalts of Guinea. 
Scripture Meafures reduced to Englifh. 
Feet. Inches, 
Digit . . . .0.0 0-91 
1 4.Palm . .o 3 64 
12 
3 
Span 
. . . . , 0 10-94 
24 
6 
2 
Cubit ... 1 9-88 
96 
24 
8 
4 
Fathom ... 7 3-55 
144 
36 
I 2 
6 
Ezekiel’s reed io,ii’3» 
19 X 
48 
l6 
8 
2 
>4 
Arabian pole 14 7*10 
[920 
480 
160 
80 
20 
*3t 
meafuring- V I 45 11 * 04 . 
*0 t line 4 * 
Cubit 
Scripture Itinerary Meafures. 
Eng. Miles. Paces. Ft, 
« • • O'. O 1-824 
400 
2000 
4000 
12000 
96000 
Stadium . , 
Sabbath day’s journey 
Eaftern mile 
Parafan 
3 ° 
140 
48 I 24 
. o 145 4-600 
, o 729 3‘000 
. J 403 1-000 
. 4 153 3-000 
A day’s journey 33 172 4-000 
Other Itinerary Meafures. 
A French league is about 2 1 Englifh miles 
A German mile 
A Dutch mile . 
An Italian mile 
A Spanifh league 
A Buffian verit 
4 ditto 
3^ ditto 
^ ditto 
3§ ditto 
ditto,.. 
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