MEASURE. 
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Roman, reduced to Engli/h Wint-meafure. 
Gaf. Pts. Sol. In. 
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12 
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48 
12 
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288 
192 
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<££» 7 1 ‘o 660 
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2304 
576 
384 
192 
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46080 
I I52O 
7680 
3840 
1920 
9601604c 
IV. Measures of Capacity for Things Dry. 
There was formerly only one meafure of capacity in 
Scotland ; and fome commodities were heaped, others 
Jl'raiked, or meafured exactly to the capacity of the ftand- 
ard. The method of heaping was afterwards forbidden 
as unequal, and a larger meafure appointed for fuch com¬ 
modities as that cuftoin had been extended to. The wheat 
firlot, ufed alfo for rye, peafe, beans, hilt, and grafs-feeds, 
contains 21 pints i mutchkin, meafured by the Stirling 
jug. The barley firlot, ufed alfo for oats, fruit, and po¬ 
tatoes, contains 31 pints. A different method of regu¬ 
lating the firlot was appointed from the dimenfions of a 
cylindrical veffel. The diameter for both meafures was 
fixed at 19!- inches, the depth inches for the wheat 
firlot, and io| for the barley firlot. A ftandard con- 
ftrufted by thefe meafures is rather lefs than when regu¬ 
lated by the pint; and, as it is difficult to make veffels 
exaftly cylindrical, the regulation by the pint has pre¬ 
vailed, and the other method gone into difufe. If the 
Stirling jug contains 103! inches, the wheat firlot will 
contain 2109 inches; which is more than 2 percent, larger 
than the legal rnalt buffiel of England, and about 1 per 
cent, larger than the Winchefter buffiel : and the barley 
firlot will contain 3208 inches. The barley boll is nearly 
equal to fix legal malt bufhels. In Stirlingfhire, 17 pecks 
are reckoned to the boll; in Invernefsffiire, 18 pecks: in 
Ayrffiire, the boll is the fame as the Englilli quarter : 
and the firlots, in many places, are larger than the Lin¬ 
lithgow ftandard. 
The old French dry meafures are, the litron, buffiel, mi- 
not, mine, feptier, muid, and tun. The litron contains 
36 cubic inches of Paris. The litron for fait is larger, 
and is differently divided. The French buffiel is diffe¬ 
rent in different jurifdiftions. At Paris it contains 16 
litrons. The rninot confifts of three bufhels; the mine of 
two minots, or fix bufhels ; the feptier of two mines, or 
3 2 bufhels; and the muid of 12 leptiers, or 144 bufhels. 
The bufhel of oats is eftimated double that of any other 
grain ; fo that there go 24 bufhels to make the feptier, . 
and 288 to make the muid. It is divided into four pico- 
tins, the picotin containing two quarts, or four litrons. 
The buffiel for fait is divided into 16 litrons; four bufhels 
makeaminot, 16 a feptier, and 192 a muid. Eight bufhels 
of wood make the rninot; 16 a mine; 20 mines,-or 320 
bufhels, the muid. For plafter, 12 bufhels make a fack, 
and 36 facks the muid. For lime, three bufhels make a 
minor, and 48 minots a muid. The rninot is compofed 
of three bufhels, or 16 litrons; four minots make a fep¬ 
tier, and 48 a muid. The French mine was no real vef- 
fel, but an eftimation of feveral others. At Paris the mine 
contains fix bufhels, and 24 make the muid ; at Rouen 
tl> mine is four bufhels ; and at Dieppe 18 mines make a 
Pans muid. The feptier differs in different places: at 
Paris it contains two mines, or eight buftiels, and 12 fep- 
tiers the muid. At Rouen the feptier contains two mines, 
or 12 bufhels. Twelve feptiers make a muid at Rouen as 
well as at Paris; but 12 of the latter are equal to 14 of 
the former. At Toulon the feptier contains a mine and 
a half; three of which mines make the feptier of Paris. 
The muid, or muy, of Paris, confifts of 12 feptiers; and 
is divided into mines, minots, bufhels, &c. That for oats 
is double that for other grain, i. 6. contains twice the 
number of bufhels. At Orleans the muid is divided into 
mines, but thofe mines only contain two Paris feptiers 
and a half. In fome places they ufe the tun in lieu of 
the muid ; particularly at Nantes, where it contains 10 
feptiers of 16 bufhels each, and weighs between 2200 and 
2250 pounds. Three of thefe tuns make 28 Paris feptiers. 
At Rochelle, &c. the tun contains 42 bufhels, and weighs 
two per cent, lefs than that of Nantes. At Breft it con¬ 
tains 20 bufhels, is equal to 10 Paris feptiers, and weighs 
about 2240 pounds. 
Dutch, Swedijli, Polijk, PrvJJian, and Mufcovite. In thefe 
places, they eftimate their dry things on the foot of the 
lajl, lejl , leth, or lecht ; fo called according to the various 
pronunciations of the people who ufe it. In Holland, the 
Jaft is equal to 19 Paris feptiers, or 38 Bourdeaux bufhels, 
and weighs about 4560 pounds; the laft they divide into 
27 mudes, and the mude into four fcheples. In Poland, 
the laft is 40 Bourdeaux bufhels, and weighs about 4800 
Paris pounds. In Pruffia, the laft is 133 Paris leptiers. In 
Sweden and Mufcovy, they meafure by the great and 
little laft; the firft containing 12 barrels, and the fecond 
half as many. In Mufcovy, they likewife ufe the chef- 
ford, which is different in various places: that of Arch¬ 
angel is equal to three Rouen bufhels. 
Italian. At Venice, Leghorn, and Lucca, they eftimate 
their dry things on the foot of the ftaro or Itaio ; the ftaro 
of Leghorn weighs 54 pounds; 112 ftaros andfeven-eighths 
are equal to the Amfterdam laft. At Lucca, 119 ftaros 
make the laft of Amfterdam. The Venetian ftaro weighs 
128 Paris pounds : the ftaro is divided into four quarters. 
Thirty-five ftaros and one-fifth, or 140^ quarters, make 
the laft of Amfterdam. At Naples and other parts, they 
ufe the tomolo or tomalo, equal to one-third of the Paris 
feptier. Thirty-fix tomoli and a half make the carro, 
and a carro and a half, or 54 tomoli, make the laft of Am¬ 
fterdam. At Palermo, 16 tomoli make the falma, and 
four mondili the tomolo. Ten falmas and three-fevenths, 
or 171 tomoli and three-fevenths, make the laft of Am¬ 
fterdam. 
Flemijh. At Antwerp, See. they meafure by the viertel; 
32 and one-half Whereof make 19 Paris feptiers. At Ham¬ 
burgh, the fchepel; 90 whereof make 19 Paris feptiers. 
Spani/h and Portugue/e. At Cadiz, Bilboa, and St. Se~ 
baftian, they ufe the fanega ; 23 whereof make the Nantes 
or Rochelle tun, or nine Paris feptiers and a half: though 
the Bilboa fanega is fomewhat larger, infomuch that 21 
fanegas make a Nantes tun. At Seville, &c. they ufe the 
anagoras, containing a little more than the Paris mine ; 36 
anagoras make 19 Paris feptiers. At Bayonne, See. the 
concha; 30 whereof are equal to nine Paris feptiers and a 
half. At Lifbon, the alquiver, a very (mail meafure, 240 
whereof make 19 Paris feptiers, 60 the Lifbon muid. 
Scripture Dry Meafures, reduced to Englijh. 
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Peck. Gal. Pt. Sol. In. 
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36 
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360 
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18 
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Ephah . . 303 12-107 
1800 
90 
50 
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5 
Leteeh . 16 0 0 26-500 
3600 
180 
100 
30 
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A l or coron J ,32 0 1 18-969 
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