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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