OF THE GREEK STADIUM.
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| Suppoſe the Engliſh foot to be as | 1000. | |
| The Greek foot, according to Greaves, is | 1007.29 | |
| According to No. I. in the other table | 1011.591 | |
| According to No. II | 1008. | |
| According to No. III | 1007.68 | |
| According to No. IV | 1009.6 | |
| According to No. V | 1005.21 | |
| According to No. VI | 1011.41 | |
| Average of Mr. Stuart's calculations | 1008.915 | |
| Proportion of Greek foot to Roman | 25:23.9614 | |
| Eng. feet | Dec. parts. | |
| Length of Greek Olympic Radium, according to Mr. Stuart's calculation of the foot . | 605. | 341 |
The near coincidence of theſe calculations with thoſe of Mr. Greaves is a ſtrong preſumption of the correctneſs of both, and proves how much thoſe have been deceived who have attempted to reduce the Greek foot to leſs than two-thirds of the Engliſh. But of this more hereafter.
Mr Rennel's account of the length of the ſtadium conſidered
Mr. Rennel, in his work entitled "The Geographical Syſtem of "Herodotus," mentions the Olympic ſtadium of 600 feet, but alledges, that, "there is no teſtimony of the application of this ſtadium to itinerary purpoſes. On the contrary, every portion of diſtance, as well throughout Herodotus's hiſtory, as the writings of other Greeks, appears, on a reference to the ground itſelfl to be meaſured by 'a itade of a much ſhorter ſtandard, moſt of them riſing above that of Xenophon, which is of 750 to a degree, but falling below that of Strabo, which is of 700."
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