16 drams
16 ounces
H pounds
28 pounds

CHAPTER   XfV.
MENSURATION.
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES;
Troy Weight.
24 grains	=   1 pennyweight
20 pennyweights   =   1 ounce
12 ounces	=   1 pound
Avoirdupois Weight.
1 ounce	4 quarters
1 pound	20 hundredweights
1 stone	2240 pounds
1 quarter	2000 pounds
Lineal Measure.

1 hundredweight
1 ton
1 long ton
1 short ton

12 inches
3  feet
6  feet
5 \ yards 	= 1 foot            5280 feet
= 1 yard            6080 feet
= 1 fathom        1760 yards
= 1 rod or pole        3 miles 	= 1 land mile
= 1 nautical mile
= 1 land mile
== 1 league 	
40  poles 	= 1 furlong 	600 feet 	— 1 cable 	
8  furlongs 	= 1 mile 	10 cables 	= 1 admiralty mile 	
69£ land miles or 60 nautical miles make 1 degree (1°), which is one
three hundred and sixtieth part of the earth's circumference. Nautical
'miles Xl*151=statute miles,
Surveyor's Land Measure
In measuring land, surveyors use a chain (called Gunter's chain)
which is 22 yards long and is subdivided into 100 equal parts, each of
which is called a link.
Thus  100 linfrs      =     1 chain    = 22 yards
10 chains    = 220 yards    —   1 furlong
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