that 35 cubic inches are equal to a pint, 2 pints In a similar way by the wine measures, and to the Scotch liquid measure.

to a quart, &c.

Beer measure for London is 36 gallons to the barrel. Ale measure 32 gallons to the barrel.

Beer and Ale measure for the country is 34 gallons to the barrel.

231 Cubic inches make one gallon, wine measure,
by an Act of Parliament, 5th Queen Anne; but the
standard gallon at Guildhall contains only 224
inches.

Scotch Liquid Measure.

Cubic Inchs. Gills Mutchkins Chopins Pints Qrts. Gall. Hhds.

The stirling jug, containing one Scotch pint, is
the original standard of all liquid and dry measures,
and of all weights in Scotland. It contains 103.464
cubic inches. When accurately filled with water
at Leith, the water weighs 3 pounds and 7 ounces
of Scots troy (equal to 55 ounces, or to 26180 Eng-
lish troy grains), so that one ounce weighs 476 Eng-
lish troy grains.

By the Act of Union, the barrel for English
country measure of 34 gallons, whose capacity is
9588 cubic inches, is reckoned equal to 12 Scots
gallons, making 9926.7 cubic inches.

Subsequent to the French Revolution, all the
measures and weights of that nation are deduced
from the metre, (see page 514.)

English Dry Measure of Capacity.

Pints Quarts Pottles Galls. Pecks Bush. Qrs. Hay Last

load.

The capacity of the standard Winchester bushel is equal to 2150.42 cubic inches..

A striked bushel is to a heaped bushel as 3 to 4, that is, a heaped bushel is one third more than a striked bushel.

A peck is equal to 537.6 cubic inches.

The avoirdupois weight of a bushel of wheat at a mean is 60 pounds, of barley 50 pounds, and of oats 38 pounds.

The weight of a pint, orth part of a peck, at a mean, of wheat is 15 avoirdupois ounces, of barley 124 ounces, of oats is 9 ounces.

A cubic foot of Newcastle coal weighs about 50 pounds, and 60 cubic feet make 1 chaldron. A. heaped bushel of coals weighs about 83 pounds avoirdupois, and 36 bushels, or the chaldron weighs about 26.67 hundred weight, or 2968 pounds avoirdupois.

In Scotland a leppee, or feed for a horse, is equal to 200.345 cubic inches.

An English cubic foot of water weighs 624 pounds avoirdupois, or 1000 ounces.

A Table to reduce hypothenusal Lines to Horizontal, the Hypo

thenuse being 100 Links.

Hyp. 100. Links. Hyp. 100. Links. Hyp. 100. Links.

The new Paris standard metre, (see page 514.).

39.371

The Scotch foot

12.061

The Scotch ell (same as English)

The Rhynland foot of Denmark

The Swedish foot

The Riga foot..

....

The Hamburgh foot
The Amsterdam foot

The Russian archine

....

11.692

10.79

11.290

11.172

28.35

English Inches.

The Portuguese vara of Lisbon is exactly five palmos de Craveira, or forty Portuguese inches, and equal to ...

The covado is three palmos de Craveira avantejados, or 24 Portuguese inches, equal to Eight inches Portuguese is a pabin.

The Turin foot

431

20.17

23.5

121.2

9.6

9.8

87.6

25.3

27.
22.8

{22.92

30.72
34.07

78.

11.635

8.82

12.09

82.9

10.31

15.

9.53