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To learn this Table: Find your multiplier in the left hand column, and the multiplicand a top, and in the common angle of meeting, or against your multiplier, along at the right hand, and under your multiplicand, you will find the product, or answer,

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28 pounds, 1 quarter of a hundred weight,

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1 ounce,

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1 pound,

lb.

gr.

1 hundred weight,

cut.

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By this weight are weighed all coarse and drossy goods, grocery wares, and all metals except gold and silver.

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4 pecks,

1 Ell French,

6. Dry Measure.

E. Fr.

1 quart,
eck,

1 bushel,

gto pk. bu.

This measure is applied to grain, beans, flax-seed, salt,

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All brandies, spirits, mead, vinegar, oil, &c. are measured by wine measure. Note.-231 solid inches, make a gallon.

8. Long Measure.

3 barley corns (b. c.) make 1 inch, marked

12 inches,

3 feet,

5 yards,

40 rods,

8 furlongs,

3 miles,

69 statute miles,

in.

ft.

yd.

fur.

M.

lea.

1 rod, pole, or perch, rd.

1 foot,

1 yard,

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1 league,

1 degree, on the earth.

360 degrees, the circumference of the earth.

The use of long measure is to measure the distance of places, or any other thing, where length is considered, without regard to breadth.

N. B. In measuring the height of horses, 4 inches make 1 hand. In measuring depths, six feet make 1 fathom or French toise. Distances are measured by a chain, four rads long, containing one hundred anks

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All solids, or things that have length, breadth and depth, are measured by this measure. N. B. The wine gallon contains 231 solid or cubic inches, and the beer gallon, 282. A bushel contains 2150,42 solid inches.

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1 week,
1 month,

W.

mo.

yr.

13 months, 1 day and 6 hours, 1 Julian year, Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November, February twenty-eight alone, all the es have thirty-one. N. B. In bissextile, or leap year, February hath 29 days.

12. Circular Motion.

60 seconds (") make

60 minutes,

30 degrees,

1 minute,

1 degree,

1 sign,

S.

12 signs, or 360 degrees, the whole great circle of the Zodiac.

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