Land Mea ure

| Places. | Measures. | Contents of each measure —— | Equiv. to 100 acres. —— | | squ. feet. | num. 100 | | Amsterdam | morgen | 87630 | 49 |,71 | | Basil | juchart | 34368 | 126 |,75 | | Berlin | great morgen | 61182 | 71 |,20 | | little morgen | 27531 | 158 |,22 | | Bern | juchart field measure | 28979 | 150 |,32 | | juchart forest measure | 41729 | 104 |,39 | | Dantzic | morgen | 59927 | 72 |,69 | | Denmark | tœnde-hart-korn | 118715 | 36 |,69 | | England | acre | 43560 | 100 |, | | Florence | soccate | 53461 | 81 |,48 | | France | arpent de Paris | 36865 | 118 |,16 | | arpent des eaux et forêts | 55071 | 79 |,10 | | hectare | 107830 | 40 |,40 | | Franc on i a | morgen | 39157 | 111 |,25 | | Geneva | journée | 55707 | 80 |,02 | | Hamburgh | morgen | 135941 | 32 |,04 | | Hanover | morgen | 28050 | 155 |,29 | | Ireland | acre | 70560 | 61 |,73 | | Rhine | morgen land measure | 18354 | 237 |,33 | | ditto for forests | 24472 | 178 |, | | ditto for vineyards | 16994 | 256 |,32 | | thauen | 13767 | 316 |,40 | | juchart | 9178 | 474 |,60 | | Ru ia | de aetina | 124620 | 34 |,95 | | Saxony | acker | 59450 | 73 |,27 | | morgen, Dresden measure | 29725 | 146 |,54 | | Schleswig | pfluge | 190350 | 22 |,88 | | Scotland | acre | 55354 | 78 |,70 | | Spain | fanegada | 48215 | 90 |,35 | | aranzada | 40514 | 107 |,52 | | Sweden | tuna land measure | 53218 | 81 |,58 | | Switzerland | fauxe | 70818 | 61 |,51 | | morgen | 35409 | 123 |,02 | | Vienna | jochen | 63728 | 68 |,35 | | Wirtemburg | great morgen | 61182 | 71 |,20 | | little morgen | 35849 | 121 |,51 | | Zurich | juchart | 34941 | 124 |,67 | | ditto for forests | 38823 | 112 |,20 | The following examples will shew in what manner the proportion between the land measures of any two given countries may be ascertained. Examples. It is required to reduce 100 des sae tinas of Ru ia into fanegadas of Spain. The de aetina measuring 124620 square feet of England, and the fanegada 48215, according to the table prefixed, I state the following equation: | 100 | des sae tinas = x | | 1 | de aetina | = | 124620 | square feet | | 48215 | square ft. | = | 1 | fanegada | | Result 258,47 fanegadas. | Reduce 100 fanegadas into des sae tinas. | 100 | fanegadas = x | | 1 | fanegada | = | 48215 | square feet | | 124620 | square ft. | = | 1 | de aetina | | Result 38,69 des sae tinas. |