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 A Reed is six Common Cubits and a Breadth, which is three Inches.

A Pace is five Foot.

A Furlong is one hundred and twenty-five Paces, or forty Perch.

A Mile is one thousand Paces, or eight Furlongs; but in the Scriptures, or Hebrew, it is much a Man can go in Half a Day, or between Meal and Meal.

Judges xx, 16 Among all the People were seven hundred chosen Men, that were  handed, that could sling at a Hair's Breadth  not miss.

Now a Hair's Breadth is the forty-eighth of an Inch, twelve Inches is a foot, sixteen Foot and a Half is a Perch, forty Perches a Furlong and eight Furlongs a Mile.

A Sabbath day's Journey, according to Scripture, is six hundred Paces.

A Cab is a Quart An Omer is a Quart and a Half A Seath is a Gallon and a Half An Ephath is Half a Bushel and a Pottle Half an Homer is seven Bushels and a Quart An Homer, or Cor, is fourteen Bushels and a Pottle. A Chenix is by some counted three Pints five Ounces and a Half, by others a Quart.