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12 linie 12 oncie 12 zoll Fuss 18 inches 6,000 Arabian feet 99 Fuss Achtel Acker acre Ahmednuggur alen Amsterdam Arpent Aune old measure Berne Biggah Braça Braccio builder's Canna Carré Cavezzo chih cubic feet cubic fuss Cubit decimal system decimally divided decimètres degree English measures English Value English yard Faden Farsakh Fathom France French mètre Fuss 12 zoll fuss broad fuss deep fuss long Gerah Germany.-(See Haut or cubit inches India India.-(See Juchart Klafter 6 fuss Land Measures Legua Length and Distance Lieue lignes de Paris lineas Linie 12 Linie Zoll Malwah metrical system Miglio Morgen or Acre Netherlands old land measure old measure Oncia palmi Palmo Pertica Pied old measure Piede piedi Portuguese measures Prussia Punto Rhein fuss Rhenish ruthen Schuh silk Solid Spain square fuss square ruthes square yards Surat surveyor's Toise tomme tsun ungulees varas versts Vienna Vierkante Voet woodland woollens Zoll 12 linien
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Page 36 - The length of a pendulum beating seconds in a vacuum at the level of the sea in the latitude of London.
Page 36 - ... superficial measure, however, it is divided into 12 lines or parts, each part into 12 seconds, and each second into 12 thirds. These are called duodecimals.
Page 82 - By an loch, or day's work, is understood to be as much ground as can be ploughed with one team in a day...
Page 68 - The measures are so inaccurately established here that great misunderstandings and quarrels result among buyers and sellers from the want of a legal standard.
Page 15 - It was devised by scientific men at the end of the last century, at the instance of the...
Page 29 - China, and those employed in the ordinary business of trade are under the strict supervision of the government.
Page 68 - Niou). 12 niou = 1 keub or palm, — measured from the thumb's point to the middle finger. 2 keub = 1 sok or cubit, — from the finger point to the elbow.
Page 44 - Cotton goods and some other fabrics are, however, sold by the English yard. The Gorge is 20 pieces.