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Mcafure. one Paris foot nine inches ten lines, or half a Paris ell.
v In Sicily, their meafure is the canna, the fame with that
of Naples.
8. ] The Mufcovy meafures are the cubit, equal to
one Paris foot four inches two lines j and the arcin,
two whereof are equal to three cubits.
9. ] The TurkiJJj and Levant meafures are the picq,
containing two feet two inches and two lines, or three-
fifths of the Paris ell. The Chinefe meafure, the
cobre ; ten whereof are equal to three Paris ells. In
Perfia, and fome parts of the Indies, the gueze, where¬
of there are twro kinds j the royal gueze, called alfo the
gue%e monkelfer, containing twTo Paris feet ten inches
eleven lines, or four-fifths of the Paris ell j and thelhorter
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gueze, called fimply gueze, only two-thirds of the for- Meafure.
mer. At Goa and Ormuz, the meafure is the vara, the' 1 y-——
fame with that of the Portuguefe, having been intro¬
duced by them. In Pegu, and fome other parts of the
Indies, the cando or candi, equal to the ell of Venice.
At Goa, and other parts, they ufe a larger cando, equal
to feventeen Dutch ells 5 exceeding that of Babel and
Balfora by ^ per cent, and the vara by In Siam,
they ufe the ken, Ihort of three Paris feet by one inch.
The ken contains two foks, the fok two keubs, the keuh
twelve nious or inches, the niou to be equal to eight
grains of rice, i. e. to about nine lines. At Camboia,
they ufe the hafter ; in Japan, the tatam; and the fpan
on fome of the coafls of Guinea.
TABLES of Long Meafure,
1. English.
Barley-c
2 Inch
27
36
54
108
180
216
594
23760
190080
9
12
18
36
60
72
198
7920
Palm
6
1 2
20
24
66
2640
63360 21120
Span
8
22
880
7040
Foot
16;
660
5280
Cubit
31
Yard
i4
11
440
3 5 20
54
220
1760
Pace
3to
132
1056
Fathom
Pole
110
880
40
320
Furlong
Mile.
2. Scripture Meafures reduced into Englijh.
Digit
12
24
96
144
192
1920
Palm
24
36
48
480
Span
12
16
160
Cubit
80
Fathom
Ezekiel’s reed
Arabian pole
20
i4
*3i
10
EnS* "Dee
feet. g-1**"
o 0.912
o 3.648
o 10.944
I 9.888
7 3-552
10 11.328
14 7.104
Schtenus, or meafuring line 145 11.04
3. The