Long MEASURES — 2nd ed. (1778

Long MEASURES, or MEASURES of Application. The English standard long measure for commerce, or that whereby the quantities of things are ordinarily estimated in the way of trade, is the yard, containing three English feet. Its divisions are the foot, span, palm, inch, and barley-corn; its multiples the pace, fathom, pole, furlong, and miles. The proportions these severally bear to each other, are expressed in the following table.

Barley-corns		3 Inch		Palm		Span		Foot		Cubit		Yard		Pace		Fathom		Pole		Furlong		Mile.
9	3
27	9
36	12
54	18
108	36
180	60
216	72
594	198
23760	7920
190080	63360

Digit		Eng. feet.		Dec. inch.
4	Palm	0	0.912	0	3.648
12	3 Span	0	10.944	0	9.888
24	6 2 Cubit	1	3.552	1	11.328
96	24 4 Fathom	7	7.104	14	11.04
144	36 12 6 1 1/2 Ezechiel's reed	10		145
192	48 16 8 2 1 1/2 Arabian pole
1920	480 160 80 20 13 1/2 10 Schœnus, or measuring line.

Cubit		English
		Miles.	Paces.	Feet.
400	Stadium	0	0	1.824
2000	5 Sab. day's journey	0	145	4.6
4000	10 2 Eastern mile	0	729	3.000
12000	30 6 3 Parasang	1	403	1.000
96000	240 48 24 8 a day's journey	4	153	3.000
		33	172	4.000

	English.
	Paces.	feet.	dec.
Daetylus, digit	0	0	0.7554 $\frac{1}{15}$
4 Doron, dochme	0	0	3.0218 $\frac{1}{2}$
10 $2\frac{1}{2}$ Lichas	0	0	7.5546 $\frac{2}{3}$
11 $2\frac{1}{2}$ $1\frac{1}{10}$ Orthodoxon	0	0	8.3101 $\frac{2}{5}$
12 3 $1\frac{1}{5}$ $1\frac{1}{10}$ Spithame	0	0	9.0656 $\frac{1}{2}$
16 4 $1\frac{6}{10}$ $1\frac{1}{5}$ $1\frac{1}{2}$ Foot	0	1	0.0875
18 $4\frac{1}{2}$ $1\frac{4}{5}$ $1\frac{1}{10}$ $1\frac{1}{2}$ $1\frac{1}{5}$ Cubit	0	1	1.5984 $\frac{1}{2}$
20 5 2 $1\frac{2}{5}$ $1\frac{1}{10}$ $1\frac{1}{2}$ $1\frac{1}{5}$ $1\frac{1}{2}$ Pygon	0	1	3.109 $\frac{1}{2}$
24 6 2 $\frac{2}{3}$ $2\frac{2}{5}$ 2 $1\frac{1}{5}$ $1\frac{1}{2}$ $1\frac{1}{2}$ Cubit larger	0	1	6.13125
96 24 9 $\frac{2}{3}$ $8\frac{2}{5}$ 8 6 5 $\frac{1}{2}$ $4\frac{1}{2}$ 4 Pace	0	6	0.525
9600 2400 960 872 $\frac{2}{5}$ 800 600 533 $\frac{1}{2}$ 480 400 100 Furlong	100	4	4.5
76800 19200 7680 6981 $\frac{2}{5}$ 6400 6800 4266 $\frac{1}{2}$ 3840 3200 800 8 Mile	805	5	0

	English
	Paces.	feet.	dec.
Digitus transversus	0	0	0.725 $\frac{1}{2}$
1 $\frac{1}{2}$ Uncia	0	0	0.967
4 3 Palmus minor	0	0	2.901
16 12 4 Pes	0	0	11.604
20 15 5 $1\frac{1}{2}$ Palmipes	0	1	2.505
24 18 6 $1\frac{1}{2}$ $1\frac{1}{2}$ Cubitus	0	1	5.406
40 30 10 $2\frac{1}{2}$ 2 $1\frac{1}{2}$ Gradus	0	2	5.01
80 60 20 5 4 3 $\frac{1}{2}$ 2 Passus	0	4	10.02
10000 7500 2500 625 500 416 $\frac{1}{2}$ 250 125 Stadium	120	4	4.5
80000 60000 20000 5000 4000 3333 $\frac{1}{2}$ 2000 1000 8 Milliare	967	0	0