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Ihe 'Proportions of the Long Meafures
by Mr.
The Englifh Standard Foot being divided into loop equal Parts, the other Meafures will have the Proportions to it, which follow. -.The Englifh Foot* from the Standard in Guildhall iooo
The Paris Royal Foot, in the Chatelet 1068
The- Rhinland Foot, of Sneltim. ' • ' • ' '°33
The Greek Foot , 10071%
The Roman Foot, on tie Monument of Coffutius 967 The Roman Foot, on the Monument of Statilius 972
The Roman Foot, of Villalfandus, taken from the Congius of Vefpafian —
of feveral Nations to the Englifh Foot, Greavesi
The Venetian Foot The Ell of Antwerp The EM of Jmjierdam The Ell of Leyden The Canna of Naples
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The Varra or Vare of Jlmeria, and Gibraltar in
The Braccio of Florence ■■
The Palm of Genoa —
The Common Braccio of Sienna
The Braccio of Sienna, for Linnen ■
Th t e Palm of the Architects at Rome, whereof
X make the Canna of the fame Architects
The Palm of the Braccio of the Merchants and
Weavers at Rome 5 from a Marble in the Capitol,
with this Infcription, CVRANTE LV POETO The Large Pique of the Turks at Constantinople The Small Pique of the Turks at Conjiantinopte,
is to the Larger, as 51 to 32.
The Arifh of Perfia ; —
The Derah or Cuhit of the Egyptians
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The Proportions of fever al Long Meafures to each other, by M. Picard;
The Rhinland or Leyden Foot (11 whereof make
the Rhinland Perch) fuppofed
The Englif Foot
The Pari! Foot — —
The Jmfterdam Foot, from that of Leyden, by
Snellius ~—
The Vanifh Foot (oto whereof make the Danifn
Ell)
The Stvedifi Foot.
The Bruffels Foot .
The Tianizic Foot, 'from Hevelius'; Selenographia The Lyons Foot, by M. Auzout — — —
The Xiolopta Foot, by the fame.
The Braccio of Florence, by the fame, and Fa- ther Merfenne ■ — — — ~—
The Palm of the Architects at Rome, according
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to the Obfervation of Meff. Ticardmi Juzout 494; The Roman Foot in the Capitol, examin'd by Mef- Jieurs Picard and Auzout m — 6530^5:-!,
The fame, from the Greek Toot
From the Vineyard Mattei — ■
From the Talm ■ ■
From the Pavement of the Pantheon, fuppofed to contain 10 Roman Feet • ■ —
From a Slip of Marble in the fame Pavement, fup- pofed to contain 3 Roman Feet •
From the Pyramid of Ceftius, fuppofed to contain 3 Roman Feet — — ,
From the Diameters of the Columns in the Arch of Septimius Severus. ■ .-.
From a Slip of Porphiry in the Pavement of the
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Square or Superficial Measures.
EngUJJi Square or Superficial Measures, are rai- Multiples, Poles, Roods, and Acres; as in the Table,
fed from the Yard of 36 Inches, multiplied into itfelf; and _ French Square Meafures, are regulated by 12 fquare Lines
this producing 1296 fquare Inches in the fquare Yard, the in the Inch fquare ; 12 Inches in the Foot, 22 Feet in
Divifions of this are Square Feet and Inches ; and the the Perch, and too Perches in the A pent, or Acre.
Englifh Square Meafures.
Inches
144
1296
3600
39204 1 568160
feet
Yards
3°* 1210 4840
Paces 435,*~
9
as
27**
10890
43560
Poles
40 160
6172640
1745,6"
Rood _4
[Acre
Grecian Square Meafures, were the Flethron, Jugerum or bits: and Jroura, the Half of the Vktlron. The Aroura Acre; by fame faid to contain 1444* by others iogoo Cu- of the Egyptians was the Square of ioo Cubits.
Roman Square Meafures reduced to Englifb.
the Integer was a Jugerum or Acre, which they divided like the Libra or As : Thus, Jugerum contain'd
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26400
24000
a 1 600
19200
16800
14400
12000
p(Soo
7200
4800
£400
cruples. 288
EngLRoods
Sq.Poles. Sq.Feet.
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00
264
2
10
204
£40
a
136
216
34
68
192
26
16S
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20*
144
09
I3S
120
01
63
96
33
00
72
24
204
48
16
136
a*
a
08
63
Cubic
