a measure of length or distance, containing eight furlongs. The English statute mile is 80 chains, or 1760 yards; that is, 5280 feet.

We shall here give a table of the miles in use among the principal nations of Europe, in geometrical paces, 62,000 of which make a degree of the equator.

| Mile of Russia | Geometrical paces | |---------------|------------------| | | 750 |

| Mile of Italy | Geometrical paces | |---------------|------------------| | | 1000 |

| Mile of England | Geometrical paces | |-----------------|------------------| | | 1200 |

| Mile of Scotland and Ireland | Geometrical paces | |------------------------------|------------------| | | 1500 |

| Old league of France | Geometrical paces | |----------------------|------------------| | | 1500 |

| The small league, ibid. | Geometrical paces | |-------------------------|------------------| | | 2000 |

| The mean league, ibid. | Geometrical paces | |------------------------|------------------| | | 2500 |

| The great league, ibid. | Geometrical paces | |-------------------------|------------------| | | 3000 |

| Mile of Poland | Geometrical paces | |---------------|------------------| | | 3000 |

| Mile of Spain | Geometrical paces | |---------------|------------------| | | 3428 |

| Mile of Germany | Geometrical paces | |-----------------|------------------| | | 4000 |

| Mile of Sweden | Geometrical paces | |----------------|------------------| | | 5000 |

| Mile of Denmark | Geometrical paces | |-----------------|------------------| | | 5000 |

| Mile of Hungary | Geometrical paces | |-----------------|------------------| | | 6000 |