mile passus, a measure of length or distance, containing eight furlongs, &c.

The English statute-mile is four score chains, or 1760 yards; that is, 5280 feet.

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We shall here give a table of the miles in use among the principal nations of Europe, in geometrical paces, 60,000 of which make a degree of the equator.

Geometrical paces.

| Mile of Russia | 750 | |---------------|-----| | of Italy | 1000| | of England | 1250| | of Scotland and Ireland | 1500| | Old league of France | 1500| | The small league, ibid. | 2000| | The mean league, ibid. | 2500| | The great league of France | 3000| | Mile of Poland | 3000| | of Spain | 3248|

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Geometrical pages.

Mile of Germany 4000 of Denmark 5000 of Hungary 6000