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146 denarii, and found the beaded circle impreed on them to coincide very nearly with Mr. Greaves's proportion of the digitus.

Dr. Murdoch himelf cannot dicover the length of the Roman itinerary foot, as he calls it, from any of his calculations. In the etimation of the ditance between Bologna and Modena, he computes the Roman foot at one-ixty-fourth, or a quarter of a digit, les than the Englih : in reckoning the ditance between London and Verulam, he makes it to be one-thirty-econd, or half a digit, les; which differs very little from the proportion aigned by Mr. Greaves.

Again, he computes the Roman itinerary foot to be to the Englih as forty-five to forty-four, or one-forty-fourth part greater. Such confuion aries from unauthoried uppoitions. The Roman itinerary foot, as ditinguihed from the common Roman foot, is to me as viionary as the pes monetalis of Athens.

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