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148 4. From the decription of the Ptolemaic foot, given by Hyginus which appears to be the ame with the Greek, and was half an inch longer than the pes monetalis, or as 25 to 24.

5. From the meaures of ancient buildings, now remaining. "Mr. Stuart," as we are told by the editor of the two lat volumes of the Antiquities of Athens, appears to have taken very great pains to dicover the true length of the Greek foot, from different meaures of the temple of Minerva Parthenon; which, from its name Hecatompedon, was uppoed to contain a meaure of an hundred feet, in ome conpicuous part of the building."

The difference of the foot, and the proportion it bears to Englih meaure, taken from various parts of the building, are as follows.

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