Note. What is called a cord foot, in measuring wood, is 16 solid feet; that is, 4 feet in length, 4 feet in width, and 1 foot in height, and 8 such feet, that is, 8 cord feet make 1 cord. 43. Reduce 9 tons of round! timber to cubic inches. 45. In 37 cord feet of wood, how many solid feet? 47. Reduce 64 cord feet of wood to cords. 44. In 622080 cubic inches, how many tons of round tim ber? 46. In 592 solid feet of wood, how many cord feet? 48. In 8 cords of wood, how many cord feet? 49. In 16 cords of wood, 50. 2048 solid feet of wood, how many cord feet? how how many cord feet? how many cords? many solid feet? WINE MEASURE. Wine measure is used in measuring all spirituous liquors, ale and beer excepted; also vinegar and oil. The denominations are tuns, pipes, hogsheads, barrels, gallons, quarts, pints, and gills. Note. A gallon, wine measure, contains 231 cubic inches. 1 pipe, P. T. ALE OR BEER MEASURE. Ale or beer measure is used in measuring ale, beer, and milk. The denominations are hogsheads, barrels, gallons. quarts, and pints. Note. A gallon, beer measure, contains 282 cubic inches. 57. Reduce 4 bar. 18 gal. of ale to pints. 59. In 29 hhds. of beer, how many pints? 58. In 13680 pints of ale; how many barrels ? 60. Reduce 12528 pints to hogsheads. DRY MEASURE. Dry measure is used in measuring all dry goods, such as grain, fruit, roots, salt, coal, &c. The denominations are chaldrons, bushels, pecks, quarts, and pints. Note. A gallon, dry measure, contains 2684 cubic inches A Winchester bushel is 18 inches in diameter, 8 inches deep, and contains 2150 cubic inches. ¶ 36, 37. 62. In 4800 pints, how ma ny bushels? 64. In 6048 pecks, how ma [ny chaldrons ? TIME. The denominations of time are years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds. 37. The year is also divided into 12 calendar months, which, in the order of their succession, are numbered as follows, viz. January, 1st month, has 31 days. The number of days in each month may be easily fixed in the mind by committing to memory the following lines: Thirty days hath September, The first seven letters of the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, are used to mark the several days of the week, and they are disposed in such a manner, for every year, that the letter A shall stand for the 1st day of January, B for the 2d, &c. In pursuance of this order, the letter which shall stand for Sunday, in any year, is called the Dominical letter for that year. The Dominical letter being known, the day of the week on which each month comes in may be readily calculated from the following couplet: At Dover Dwells George Brown, Esquire, These words correspond to the 12 months of the year, and Note. There are two Dominical letters in leap years, one for January and February, and another for the rest of the year. 65. Supposing your age to be 15y. 19 d. 11 h. 37 m. 45 s., how many seconds old are you, allowing 365 days 6 hours to the year? 66. Reduce 475047465 seconds to years. 68. Reduce 325440 minutes 67. How many minutes from the 1st day of January to the to days. 14th day of August, inclusively? 69. How many minutes from 70. In 4079160 minutes, the commencement of the war how many years? between America and England, April 19th, 1775, to the settlement of a general peace, which took place Jan. 20th, 1793 ? CIRCULAR MEASURE, OR MOTION. Circular measure is used in reckoning latitude and longitude; also in computing the revolution of the earth and other planets round the sun. The denominations are circles, signs, degrees, minutes, and seconds. Note. Every circle, whether great or small, is divisible into 360 equal parts, called degrees. 71. Reduce 9 s. 13° 25' to 72. In 1020300", ,how many The following are denominations of things not included in the Tables: 12 particular things make 12 dozen 12 gross, or 144 dozen, 20 particular things 6 points make 1 line, 12 lines 1 inch, { 1 hand, { 1 dozen. used in measuring the length of the rods of clock pendulums. used in measuring the height of horses. 1 fathom, used in measuring depths at sea. 24 sheets of 1 quintal of fish. SUPPLEMENT TO REDUCTION. QUESTIONS. 1. What is reduction? 2. Of how many varieties is reduction? 3. What is understood by different denominations, as of money, weight, measure, &c.? 4. How are high de |