NOTE. Apothecaries use this weight in compounding their medicines; but they buy and fell their drugs by Avoirdupois weight.

69 Statute Miles;

1 Mile.

1 League.

1 Degree.

NOTE. In this measure, length only is confidered.

Gallons

84 Gallons

2 Hogfheads

2 Pipe or 4 Hogfheads

make

I Quart.

1 Gallon.

1 Tierce.

1 Hogfhead.

1 Puncheon.

1 Pipe or Butt,

1 Tun.

NOTE. The wine gallon contains 231 cubic inches,

NOTE. The ale gallon contains 282 cubic inches.

CUBIC OR SOLID MEASURE,

NOTE. 8 feet in length, 4 in breadth, and 4 in height, making 128 folid feet, contain a cord of wood. This meafure refpects length, breadth, and thickness.

NOTE. The gallon dry measure contains 2684 cubic inches.

8 Bufhels

60 Seconds

60 Minutes

24 Hours

365 Days

NOTE. 365 days 5 hours 48 minutes 57 feconds make a folar year according to the most exact obfervation.

The number of days in each month is thus found:

Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November:

February hath twenty-eight alone'; and all the reft have thirty-one. When the year can be divided by 4 without a remainder, it is Biffextile or Leap Year, in which February hath 29 days,

Leap