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To learn this Table: Find your multiplier in the left hand column, and the multiplicand a-top, and in the common angle of meeting, or against your multiplier, along at the right hand, and under your multiplicand, you will find the product, or answer.

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2. Troy Weight.

24 grains (gr.) make 1 penny-weight, marked
20 penny-weights, 1 ounce,
1 pound,

12 ounces,

3. Avoirdupois Weight.

16 drams (dr.) make

16 ounces,

28 pounds, 1 quarter of a hundred weight,
1 hundred weight,

4 quarters,

20 hundred weight,

1 ton,

20 grains (gr.) make S scruples,

8 drams,

12 ounces,

1 ounce,

1 pound,

5. Cloth Measure.

4 nails (no.) make 4 quarters,

5 quarters, 5 quarters, 6. quarters,

By this weight are weighed all coarse and drossy goods, grocery wares, and all metals except gold and silver.

4. Apothecaries Weight.

1 scruple,
1 drain,

2 pints (pt.) make 8 quarts, 4 pecks,

1 quarter of a yard,
1 yard,

1 Ell Flemish,

1 ounce,
1 pound,

Apothecaries use this weight in compounding thei

medicines.

1 Ell English,
1 Eli French,

6. Dry Measure.

pwt.

oz.

lb.

1 quart,
1 peck,
1 bushel,

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qr.

ewt.

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E. Fl.

E. E.

E.Fr.

gt.

pk.

bu.

This measure is applied to grain, beans, flax-seed, salt, oats, oysters, coal, &c.

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8 feet,

5 yards, 40 rods,

8 furlongs, S miles,

8. Long Measure.

'S barley corns (b. c.) make 1 inch, marked 12 inches,

All brandies, spirits, mead, vinegar, oil, &c. are mea sured by wine measure. Note.-231 solid inches, make a gallon.

pt.
qt.

gal.

bla

1 mile,

1 league,

tier.

hhd.

p.

69 statute miles,
360 degrees, the circumference of the earth.

1 foot,

ft.

1 yard,

yd.

1 rod, pole, or perch, rd.
1 furlong,

fur.

m.

lea

in.

1 degree, on the earth.

The use of long measure is to measure the distance of places, or any other thing, where length is considered, without regard to breadth.

N. B. In measuring the height of horses, 4 inches make 1 hand. In measuring depths, six feet make 1 fathom, or French toise. Distances are measured by a chain, four rods long, containing one hundred links.

9. Land, or Square Measure.

P

144 square inches make 9 square feet, 30 square yards, or 2 2724 square feet, 40 square rods, 4 square roods, 640 square acres,

10. Solid or Cubic

1728 solid inches make

40 feet of round timber, or
50 feet of hewn timber,

128 solid feet or 8 feet long,
4 wide, and 4 high,

11.

60 seconds (S.) make

60 minutes,

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1 ton or load.'

1cord of wood.

All solids, or things that have length, breadth and depth, are measured by this measure. N. B. The wine gallon contains 231 solid or cubic inches, and the beer gallon, 282. A bushel contains 2150,42 solid inches.

60 seconds () make 60 minutes,

Time.

1 minute, marked
1 hour,

S. M.

h.

24 hours,

1 day,

d.

1 week,

W.

7 days,
4 weeks,

1 month,

mo.

yr.

18 months, 1 day and 6 hours, 1 Julian year, Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November, February twenty-eight alone, all the rest have thirty-one.. N. B. In bissextile, or leap year, February hath 29 days.

12. Circular Motion.

1 minute,
1 degree,

30 degrees,

1 sign,

3.

12 signs, or 360 degrees, the whole great circle of the Zodiac.

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