a measure of length or distance, containing eight furlongs. The English statute-mile is 80 chains, or 1760 yards; that is, 280 feet.

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

| Geometrical places | |-------------------| | 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, ibid. | 3000 | | Mile of Poland | 3000 | | of Spain | 3428 | | of Germany | 4000 | | of Sweden | 5000 | | of Denmark | 5000 | | of Hungary | 6000 |