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Rh or pace, containing five feet,) and the number of paces contained in each tadium being multiplied by eight make up 1000 paces, or 5000 feet.

Pliny ays, that a adium contains 125 Roman paces that is 625 feet.

Cenorinus ays, that the Italic tadium contains 625 feet, Olympic 600 feet, and the Pythic 1000 feet.

Frontinus ays, the tadium contains 625 feet and 1000 paces, or 5000 feet, equal to eight tadia.

The author of the treatie de Limitibus, and the one de Menuris , ay, "that the Radium is the leat computation of ditance ued by travellers; that it contains 125 paces, which are equal to 625 feet, and this lat um multiplied eight times makes a mile, which conits of 5000 feet."

Thee accounts however are perhaps not more than eemingly dicordant. The Olympic itadiurri, which is undertood to be meant when nothing is expreed to the contrary, was compoed of 60o Herculean feet, each of which exceeded the common foot, in the ame proportion as the length of the foot of Hercules did the tione