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144 and would therefore ue the ame meaure with that employed in buildings. It appears then that this foot was ued in uperficial meaurement; and Vitruvius, who derives his meaurs from the proportions of the human body, which he aifumes as a tandard, makes' no difference between the foot ued in the contruction of buildings, and that employed in the menuration of ditances on the road. The author of the Treatie de Menuris ays farther, that the meaures taken from the proportions of the human body are thoe "quæ ad viatores eu ad curores pertinent"

We may then, I think, fairly conclude, that the Romans ued one foot meaure only, and that the Coutian foot was the Roman foot for all purpoes.

Dr. Murdoch peaks twice of the pes monetalis of Athens, for which he eems to cite Greaves, who is o far from regarding it as an Attic meaure, that he calls it the pes monetalis, or Romanus.

Dr. Murdoch again ays, that the proportion of the pes monetilis to the Englih foot is as 19 to 20; and adds, that the term monetalals is to be found in Hyginus. It is certainly mentioned twice by that author; but it refers in both places to the Roman, and not to the Attic foot.

The word monetalis is of Roman, not of Greek extraction, and carried