PACE

(Fr. pas.) A denomination of linear measure, of uncertain extent; a umed by some to be 5 feet, by oth ers 4"4. It is the quantity supposed to be measured by the foot from the place where it Is taken up 10 that where it is set down. The ancient Roman [Mice, considered as the thousandth part of a mile, was five Unman feet, and each foot contained between 11 00 and 1101 modern English inches; hence the pace was about 58"1 English incites, and the Roman mile, the mille pa us, equal to 1014 yards. Sec Mu.k. PACTTA, 'Pronounc ' m.he Persian pacu shah, foot oftte shah.) A till, of honour, given, in the origin or the Turkish empire, to the ministers and chief a istants of the sultan, whether military or learned. (See Von Hamcr's History of the Turkish Empire, vol. I., p. 137.) In proce of time attributed particularly to the governors of provinces, styled pacha'iks. The well-known distinction of ranks between the two cla es of pachas consists in the number of horse tails which are carried before them as standards, the higher having three and the lowet two. There were until recently 25 pnchaliks, subdivided into sang i acates, besides various indej)endent jurisdictions scattered over the empire. [s. 885]