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Rh Dr, Murdoch is of opinion, that the itinerary foot among the Romans differed from the one in domeitic ue. But. I ee no grounds for this uppoition. Columella aumes the foot as the origin and foundation of meaurernents of every kind, either by its multiplications, or by its diviions, and pecifies of the former kind, paus, actus, climata, jugera, tadia, centuriæ, and other paces of greater extent. The foot which he decribes mut therefore have been the itinerary foot.

Vitruvius gives the ame account of the foot with Columella; as that it contains four palms, or ixteen digits, and that it is to the cubit in the proportion of four to fix.

We cannot doubt that the foot decribed by Vitruvius was the architectural foot, and, as uch, the ame with the one on the monument of Coffutius at Rome. This may be inferred from Greaves's account, as he found the larger tones in the pavement of the Pantheon to correpond exactly with three Coffutian feet, and the maller, with one Coffutian foot and a half. The peron, to whoe memory this is thought to have been erected, was by trade a culptor, or perhaps more probably a builder, as we may infer from the compaes, quare, and level, incribed on his tomb, and