Weights and Measures , &c.

most fertility of the Soil, and by this the people judg’d of the fu-ture Crop. For such a natural reason the government would not,and the people neither would nor could, change the Standardmeasure.

Secondly, The Nile by its annual overflowing sometimes con-founding the boundaries of people’s properties, it was necessaryto have a stated Measure of length to set them out again. Of thisBishop Cumberland gives an Example in the land assign’d to theMilitia , as follows.

ff The strength of this reason may be understood more clearly" by help of an Example in Herodotus his Euterpe. There he tellscc that in Ægypt their fettled Militia consisted of these two sorts<f of Soldiers, who were esteemed above all Tradesmen, the Her-ic motybia , and the Calajtries. The full number os the later of" these was 150000 Men, who in courses were their King’sf{ Guards, and every one of them had to maintain him and his** family Land, (free from Taxes) whose Area, or superficial con-* c tent, was 12. Aroura, each Aroura being 100 Cubits on<c every Side; which imports that it was the Square of 100 Cu-" bits. Wherefore to know how much land this was in our mea-<f sure, I took the Cairo Cubit an hundred times, which is 18 2^4<f in our foot measure, as may be inferr’d from Mr. Greaves his

Table: and by squaring this number, I find an Aroura to be" 3 3 169.76 square Feet. Which is considerably less than one" Englijh Acre, for that contains 435 60 square Feet. Hence it" will follow that 1 1 Arouree will amount to 35)9237,11 square" Feet. And this divided by the feet of an, Englijh Acre, will" quote «>,i 65. which demonstrates that the Land of each Calafi-" ry amounted to 9 Englijh Acres, and 16 5 Millejimals of an A-" ere, or 1 tenth of an Acre, 6 Cents, dec. above the 9 entire" Acres: And it’s clear, that so much good land lying where he" places it, might maintain any of them with his Family very well.

A Cubit shorter than the Standard, men of their character wouldnot bear ; a longer must either make a Mutiny among themselves,

K i viz.